Does sex have a future? Nature’s unsure
The first IVF baby was born 30 years ago. What about the next 30 years? Thirty years ago, on 25 July 1978, the world’s first...
Singapore organ trading scandal
Retail magnate charged with buying kidney A retail magnate has become the first person in Singapore to be charged with buying organs. Tang Wee Sung...
Queen of Mean shows a posthumous streak of kindness — for dogs
Trust will have billions to spend on dog welfare New York real estate billionaire Leona Helmsley’s best friend was her dog, a fluffy white Maltese...
Life is good, says woman who asked for euthanasia
Indian woman more positive after surgery An woman who once petitioned the President of India to grant her request for euthanasia has recovered enough to...
ICSI soars in Europe
Have doctors discovered a tidy little money-spinner? New figures on assisted reproduction technology in Europe show that there has been an explosion in the use...
Minister against “death tourism”
Dignitas meets opposition Switzerland’s Justice Minister, Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, says she wants to end the "death tourism" business by Dignitas, an agency which helps foreigners to...
Colorado to vote on personhood of embryo
Move not favoured by major pro-life organisationsOne of the most contentious issues in modern philosophy is “what is a person”? Are all humans persons? Are...
Beauty and the brain scan
Wellcome Trust bankrolls neuroaesthetics There is an intriguing job vacancy at University College London for a PhD interested in neuroaesthetics. The successful candidate will be...
Utilitarian to head UK ethics institute
John Harris teams up with John Sulston And while we’re grumbling about UK research grants, here’s more news about research grants doled out to radical...