Does the world need another international treaty to deal with future pandemics?
23 leaders say that the world needs to be prepared Even as nations struggle to cope with Covid-19 catastrophes, 23 world leaders have called for...
3 polyamorous parents listed on child’s birth certificate in British Columbia
A new chapter in the Reproductive Revolution A new chapter in the Reproductive Revolution. A polyamorous “throuple” in British Columbia has succeeded in a legal...
Activist calls for moratorium on publication of Chinese transplant research
He claims that hospitals are killing prisoners for their organs China continues to use executed prisoners to supply its rapidly growing demand for organ transplants,...
‘Public involvement’ needed to pave way for controversial science, say researchers
Voters need to be softened up In October of 2020, Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier were awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their discovery...
At long last, the first issue of the ‘Journal of Controversial Ideas’!
Will articles on bioethics feature prominently in coming issues? More than a year after the launch of the controversial journal, the Journal of Controversial Ideas,...
Ukraine clinic seeks to genetically engineer babies
The Medeus Clinic also offers “complex rejuvenation and life extension” The ever-alert stem cell scientist and blogger Paul Knoepfler has flagged a Ukrainian clinic which...
Do we need an international pandemic treat?
Even as nations struggle to cope with Covid-19 catastrophes, 23 world leaders have called for the adoption of an international pandemic treaty. However noble this...