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Data from Institute of Science and Technology advance knowledge in biomedical engineering

Published in Health Insurance Week, March 11th, 2007

Research findings, "Ethical considerations of neuroscience research: the perspectives on neuroethics in Japan," are discussed in a new report. "Recent technologies and developments in neuroscience have contributed to remarkable scientific discoveries, and have also raised many new philosophical, ethical, legal, and social issues. Research in "neuroethics" has identified various ethical issues, which will be difficult for current biomedical ethics to resolve from both an experimental and a social perspective, such as criminal applications of brain scans, incidental findings during non-clinical brain imaging, and cognitive enhancement," scientists in Tokyo, Japan report.

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