The Australian Government has granted its first licenses for research on embryos to two IVF clinics.
The Australian Government has granted its first licenses for research on embryos to two IVF clinics. Sydney IVF and Melbourne IVF have been given a...
Long road ahead for adult stem cell research
Two steps forward, one step backwards seems to be the theme of adult stem cell research. As part of the forward march, researchers announced this...
50 years on, Puerto Rico remembers the pill
The 50th anniversary of the first trials of the contraceptive pill this year is shining a new light on the low ethical standards of their...
Genetic sleuths forging bioethics guidelines
The new field of bio-history needs a code of ethics, says a Chicago group of scientists, historians and lawyers in the journal Science. Biohistory involves...
Is bioethics just an academic joke?
Bioethics needs to change its focus or risk becoming "a source of entertainment", says a bioethicist at Montreal's McGill University. Dr Leigh Turner says that...
Choose your baby’s sex for $199 plus postage and handling
Kits for choosing your baby's sex are proliferating on the internet even though conventional doctors deride them as snake oil. One home-use product is GenSelect,...
IN BRIEF: surrogate mother; Utah child murder; one-child policy; Kervorkian complaints
A surrogate mother in Pennsylvania who gave birth to triplets last year has been awarded legal custody after she argued that the biological father and...