The transhumanist project and personal autonomy
A number of the eminences of Silicon Valley are besotted with immortality. Google, PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg are a just a...
Canadian surgeons harvesting organs from euthanised patients
Dozens of patients in Ontario have already donated organs and tissue Taking advantage of the country’s new law, Canadian transplant surgeons have harvested organs from...
Is the 14-day limit on growing embryos out of date?
New types of structures grown from stem cells raise perplexing problems Both in the US and UK, growing human embryos more than 14 days in...
Cambodia bans exports of breast milk to US
Government cites health concerns Cambodia has banned exports of breast milk to the United States. Ambrosia, a Utah company, has been shipping breast milk to...
Redefining gender roles: hubbie gives birth
Another transgender tale Another dispatch from the Wild West of assisted reproduction. “Husband Gave Birth To His First Child After Wife Was Unable To Fall...
Making eugenics acceptable again
A critic of the bad old eugenics embraces the good new eugenics. Gene editing technology will inevitably lead to eugenics – and that’s a good...
Mortal remains
One of the star exhibits in the Royal College of Surgeons' Hunterian Museum of anatomy in London is the skeleton of Charles Byrne, an 18th Century...
Three-parent babies green-lighted in the UK
Newcastle University to begin treating couples A genetically engineered baby could be born in the UK before Christmas. The UK government has given a licence...
New Zealand river declared a legal person
Dispute with Maori settled after 140 years In the latest wrinkle in debates over personhood, a Māori iwi (tribe) in New Zealand has succeeded in...
US workers could be forced to disclose genetic information to employers
No discounts on health insurance unless they surrender their right to genetic privacy A 2008 US law, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) guaranteed Americans the...
When stem cell treatments go wrong, they really go wrong
A stem cell 'trial' in Florida blinds three elderly women Three elderly women in Florida have been blinded by an unproven treatment, as a reminder...
Costa Rica’s resistance to legal IVF crumbles
First child born in local clinicRonald Reyes/The Tico Times A girl named Maria José has become the first IVF baby to be born...