Put us out of our misery, ask Indian farmers
In 2007 an infection swept through the pomegranate trees of Hyderabad-Karnataka in India. Pomegrates are a profitable export crop into countries like Germany, Switzerland, France, and Canada....
Nita Farahany: Neuroscience and the law
Renown academic and presidential advisor Nita Farahany recently spoke with BioEdge about neuroscience and the law. The US Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical...
Scotland’s assisted suicide bill whacked by committee
Margo MacDonald's legacy contains "significant flaws". A bill which would legalise assisted suicide in Scotland contains “significant flaws”, according to a report by a parliamentary...
South African court authorises assisted suicide
On Thursday a South African court ruled that a 65-year-old man should be allowed to undergo assisted suicide. On Thursday a South African court ruled...
Death penalty losing support in US
As the US Supreme Court prepares to hear evidence on botched executions in Oklahoma, the Pew Research Centre has released revealing new statistics on opinions...
Naturalism, but not as you know it
A new environmentalist movement believes in protecting all life -- "right down to the cellular level". It’s surprising when you encounter an ethical framework radically...
Life imitates art in Hollywood once again
The saga of Sophia Vergara and Nick Loeb. The technical term for Hollywood’s latest bioethical brain-teaser is anti-mimesis, the theory that life imitates art. Sophia...
Germline tinkering sparks more controversy
Francis S. Collins and Julian Savulescu take diametrically opposed sides. Chinese attempts to modify the human genome using new gene editing technology are still stirring...
Keystroke: the world of the medical thriller
"If my books stop selling, I can always fall back on brain surgery," jokes one author-physician. It could be that the public gleans most of...