AS A RESOURCE TO HELP INTRODUCE AND TEACH BIOETHICS, HHMI has produced Ethics in Biomedical Research—a DVD that explores some of modern-day science's most profound ethical issues, competing moral arguments, and the conflicts they engender.

First released last summer as a beta-test version to HHMI investigators and others, the new version offers revisions of the original three videos—Animal Studies, Genetic Alteration, and Scientific Integrity—in response to user comments and suggestions. An overview, which briefly reviews the history of bioethics in research and clinical medicine, was added as well.

The DVD's "Companion Resources" section provides succinct summaries of each video, along with PDF files of important documents cited in the overview. To aid deeper exploration into bioethics, the section also directs viewers to a newly created Web site that offers case studies, discussion questions, Web links to other bioethics resources, and bibliographies.