Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics

Bioethics research center

Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics

Location|

* New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Affiliations| Yale University
Website| bioethics.yale.edu

The Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, or YICB, is an academic research center based primarily in the study of biomedical ethics.[citation needed]

It is partnered with the Hastings Center to sponsor visiting Yale/Hastings Bioethics scholars. It also hosts the Sherwin Nuland international Summer Bioethics Institute (SBI). It is a subsidiary of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS).[1]

Director Stephen Latham was contacted by a Yale neuroscience team led by Nenad Sestan that had restored metabolic and cellular function in pig brains ex vivo.[2] The YICB ultimately agreed that Sestan's team had violated no ethical standards.[3] Latham recommended that guidelines regarding such practices should be established as similar experiments are carried out.[4]

## References

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1. ^ "A New Partnership in Bioethics" (PDF). The Yale-Hastings program in Ethics and Health Policy.
2. ^ "Neuroscientists Partially Revive Pig Brains After Death". Psychology Today. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
3. ^ Shaer, Matthew (2019-07-02). "Scientists Are Giving Dead Brains New Life. What Could Go Wrong?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
4. ^ "Frankenpig?". yalealumnimagazine.com. Retrieved 2020-01-21.