Fund-raising drive begins
BioEdge was launched in 2001, in the week that President George W. Bush announced his adminstration's policy on human embryonic stem cell research. That fuelled...
Calls to extend 14-day embryo rule
Policy analysts in the US and UK are calling for an augmentation of the decades-old 14-day embryo experimentation rule. Policy analysts in the US and...
Dutch euthanasia cases up by 4%
Steep rise in end-stage psychiatric disorders and dementia. The number of euthanasia cases in the Netherlands continues to rise steadily. According to the latest statistics...
Overdose deaths are boosting organ donation rates
Public health executives see a big positive in the US opioid tragedies – increased organ donation. The number of deaths from opioid overdoses has skyrocketed...
Existential risk #2: gene editing a potential WMD?
Here’s what a few bioethicists have to say. In February this year, the US Director of Intelligence James R. Clapper named gene-editing technology as...
Existential risk #1: Mass extinction events
Human beings are more likely to die in a mass extinction event than a car crash, according to a new report on existential risk. Eve...
Australian govt report backs ban on domestic commercial surrogacy
... but supports altruistic surrogacy A government report has backed calls for an international treaty on surrogacy and for uniform legislation within Australia banning commercial...
Chinese policy on organ transplants is just smoke and mirrors, say critics
Falun Gong supporters query government announcements The issue of harvesting organs from political prisoners in China to supply the country’s more than 160 transplant centres...
Bold attempt to reverse brain death gets US approval
Proof-of-concept clinical trials on 20 patients in India Despite some sceptics, an Indian company working with a US biotech company has received a green light...
What the man in the street thinks about human enhancement
Overwhelmingly against germline modification What does the American public think about human germline enhancement? A survey of 17 polls taken over the 30 years published...
Dutch euthanasia cases up by 4%
Steep rise in end-stage psychiatric disorders and dementia. The number of euthanasia cases in the Netherlands continues to rise steadily. According to the latest statistics...