Advance directive implants
Logan’s Run is a 1976 sci fi film which has not stood the test of time. “Terminally silly” and “aggressively tedious” are words used by...
Another solution for dementia: ‘advance directive implants’
Modelled on Norplant contraceptive implants No doubt you have heard of “advance directives” – guidelines for carers, guardians or doctors on what do to in...
WHO gives in-principle endorsement to human genome editing
However, it needs strict regulation Two reports released this week by the World Health Organization (WHO) offer a pathway to establish human genome editing as...
Right-to-die in Scotland: People in glass houses, etc
The founder of Dignity in Dying was an unabashed eugenicist The argumentum ad hominem is widely regarded as the worst of arguments, but, you know,...
Male mice give birth in bizarre Chinese experiment
A surgical solution to transwomen gestating children is unlikely to catch on We missed this one during the BioEdge editor’s break. Scientists in China have...
Secular bioethics threatens human dignity, says US bioethicist
What about the millions of people with dementia? Medicine detached from a transcendent dimension is increasingly a threat to human dignity, argues a bioethicist and...
Gift vouchers for egg freezing
What better present for over-30s? Here’s a quirky angle to the Covid pandemic – gift vouchers for egg freezing. OVA, an egg freezing c ompany...
Data from popular Down syndrome test could be used by China’s military
US government regards it as a security risk NIFTY, a popular pre-natal test for Down syndrome and other foetal abnormalities, is generating data for Chinese...
Eunuchs and bioethics: a malicious act with intent in Brisbane
A DIY castration service True Crime and Bioethics Series. Not all stories in the “true crime” genre are about murder. This one is about castration....
New film examines ethical complexity of surrogacy
What if the baby has Down syndrome? There is no spoiler alert for The Surrogate because BioEdge has not seen the film. But it looks...