Professor Megan Munsie

Deputy Director, Centre for Stem Cell Systems, Anatomy and Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne

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Health & Medicine

Gaining clarity on the ethical issues of a possible COVID-19 vaccine

Given the implications for potential take-up of a COVID-19 vaccine, it’s important to unpack religious as well as the general ethical concerns from using human cell lines

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Health & Medicine

A remedy for false COVID-19 cures?

Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration has been more vigilant in policing advertisements for unproven COVID-19 ‘treatments’. But have some slipped through the cracks?

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Health & Medicine

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Podcast

My brilliant career

The advancement of women in medical research remains a challenge, but momentum is pushing through new frontiers for women in science

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Sciences & Technology

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Under the Microscope

Discoveries that blew our minds in 2018: Part Two

Our experts tell us about their pick of the best research, discoveries and big thinking from around the world in 2018

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Sciences & Technology

What are we doing to our dogs?

Designer dogs, selective breeding, clones and intensive breeding are having unintended effects on the health and wellbeing of man’s best friend - so is our love of pups actually bad for them in the long run?

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Health & Medicine

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Book extract

A trade in desperation: The rise of stem cell tourism

Book extract: As medicine and health care around the world undergo major changes, a new book “Stem Cell Tourism and the Political Economy of Hope” looks at the rise of people travelling in the hope of a cure

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Politics & Society

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Podcast

Cell sell: The ethics of the transnational human tissue market

A highly organised international market in human biological material exists for those desperate enough to pay. But where are the moral lines in this lucrative trade, and how can we police them?