Controversy dogs ‘assisted dying’ poll of UK doctors
Allegations that the Royal College of Physicians has been hijacked A controversial poll by the Royal College of Physicians, in the UK, is expected to...
Singer and Savulescu back germline editing
He Jiankui’s fundamental ethical misstep was exposing children to risk, not gene editing The debate continues over the ethics of genetically editing the genome and...
Embryo profiling could be a short-cut to ‘designer babies’
Technically feasible but ‘repugnant’, says one geneticist While genome modification for complex traits like IQ may be the stuff of science fiction, not science fact,...
Latest revelations about sperm donation secrets
From The Netherlands, Israel and the US It may be hard to wind up our readers’ interest in abuses of sperm donation after the news...
Consent not a defence, court tells body modification artist
Tongue-splitting is not ‘reasonable’ Dr Evil Dr Evil, a British body modification artist, has been found guilty of three counts of grievous bodily harm for...