The end is nigh!
The Global Priorities Project and the Future of Humanity Institute, both based at Oxford University, recently produced a Global Catastrophic Risk 2016 report. It’s less gripping...
Hackers download OkCupid data without consent
Danish researchers post information on 70,000 people Is your privacy safe on the internet? How do you know? Now that people store medical records in...
New stem cell research guidelines
The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) has released updated guidelines for stem cell research In response to the rapid development of scientific research...
Medicine in India #2 – IVF for septuagenarians
A woman in India thought to be in her 70s has given birth to a baby boy A woman in India thought to be in...
Medicine in India #1 – limb surgery
Limb surgery is becoming an increasingly common procedure among middle-class Indians. Limb surgery is becoming an increasingly common procedure among middle-class Indians looking to improve...
Does fear change behaviour?
Bioethicists claim that fear-based public health campaigns are effective and not necessarily stigmatising In 2010 the New York City Department of Health launched a grisly...
Pfizer to stop supplying drugs for executions
But will it continue to supply them for euthanasia? Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has declared that it will not provide drugs to correctional institutions for executions....
Paris conference investigates CRISPR potential
All the highlights CRISPR and other gene-editing technologies hold great promise for treating disease. However, they also provoke significant ethical concerns, especially about germline modification...
One of America’s finest novelists tackles life extension
As Don De Lillo approaches 80, he meditates upon death“We are born without choosing to be. Should we have to die in the same manner?...