DOLLY’S “DAD” HAD ONLY SUPERVISORY ROLE
Cloning researchers seem to have a knack for coming up with embarrassing surprises. First the South Korean government ended up with egg on its face...
UK WOMAN DENIED ACCESS TO FROZEN EMBRYOS
The fate of frozen embryos hit page one in Britain last week with a sobbing woman begging her former boyfriend to allow their 5-year-old IVF...
IRISH TUG-OF-WAR OVER MORE EMBRYOS
And across the Irish Sea in Dublin, a divorced couple is locked in a custody battle over embryos also created and frozen in 2001. A...
FORCE-FEEDING OF GITMO DETAINEES DENOUNCED
The force-feeding of Guantanamo Bay detainees has again come under attack by doctors. In a widely publicised letter in the British journal The Lancet, 263...
KOREAN GOVERNMENT USES IVF TO RAISE BIRTH RATE
Alarmed by a birth rate which is amongst the lowest in the world, the South Korean government has decided to turn to IVF. President Roh...
HWANG FIGHTS TO CLEAR HIS NAME
Disgraced Korean stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk is trying to clear his name by challenging the results of an investigation into his research by Seoul...
HANDS OFF OUR OVARIES”
Radical feminists and pro-life women have linked arms to create an unlikely coalition against egg harvesting for stem cell research. Hands off our ovaries" will...
BLOGGING BUG BITES
The blogging bug has bitten the bioethics community. The American Journal of Bioethics was the first to launch a blog. is run by Glenn McGee,...