Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics
{{short description|Bioethics research center}}
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|name=Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics
|image=File:Emblem_of_Yale_Interdisciplinary_Center_for_Bioethics.jpg
|location_city=New Haven, Connecticut
|location_country=United States
|affiliations=Yale University
|website={{url|https://bioethics.yale.edu}}
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The Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, or YICB, is an academic research center based primarily in the study of biomedical ethics.{{cn|date=April 2022}}
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).{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehastingscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/Yale-Hastngs-brochure-ID.pdf|title=A New Partnership in Bioethics|work=The Yale-Hastings program in Ethics and Health Policy}}
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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-future-brain/201904/neuroscientists-partially-revive-pig-brains-after-death|title=Neuroscientists Partially Revive Pig Brains After Death|website=Psychology Today|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-21}} The YICB ultimately agreed that Sestan's team had violated no ethical standards.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/02/magazine/dead-pig-brains-reanimation.html|title=Scientists Are Giving Dead Brains New Life. What Could Go Wrong?|last=Shaer|first=Matthew|date=2019-07-02|work=The New York Times|access-date=2020-01-21|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} Latham recommended that guidelines regarding such practices should be established as similar experiments are carried out.{{Cite web|url=https://yalealumnimagazine.com/articles/4912-frankenpig|title=Frankenpig?|website=yalealumnimagazine.com|language=en|access-date=2020-01-21}}