British DNA databank growing
Britons are beginning to worry about the size of their expanding national DNA database. More than 6% of the population, or about 4 million people,...
No halt to Asian sex imbalance
The problem of sex imbalance in Asia continues to make the news. At the Fourth Asia Pacific Conference on Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights,...
Cloned horses off to slow start
While human reproductive cloning is unlikely to be endorsed by any scientific body or government in the near future, cloning horses is also meeting strong...
Globalised bioethics
Like many other industries in India, IVF clinics are going global. Pulse, a women's hospital in Ahmedabad, has forged agreements with a hospital in Ghana...
Doctors to make millions from Australian IVF clinic sale
Although IVF is said to be a US$3 billion industry in the United States, it is seldom reported in the financial press. However, the sale...
My brain made me do it
The "neuro-mitigation of blame" should be regarded with deep suspicion, says a British doctor. Professor Raymond Tallis says that recent developments in neuroscience appear to...
Nurses to decide life and death in UK
British nurses are to be authorised to decide whether patients should be revived with cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). The new rule is aimed to prevent the...
Italians wrangle over bioethics committee
A shake-up of Italy's national advisory body for bioethics has led to bitter wrangling, especially over stem cell research, according to a report in Nature....
New Jersey to vote on stem cell bond issue
Politicians in New Jersey want to position their state to take advantage of a glowing future for embryonic stem cell research. Following California's example, voters...