It’s tough being a 60+ single mother. Or maybe impossible
A Florida woman boasted of her late IVF pregnancy. Now her toddler has beaten her infant daughter to death. Stories about older women having IVF...
The greatest show on earth
The Games of the XXXI Olympiad have just started in Rio de Janeiro. A few thousand young men and women will be sweating in their competitions;...
NIH close to new policy on chimera research
Ban on funding may be lifted by JanuaryMouse, mouse-rat chimera, rat-mouse chimera and rat The National Institutes of Health announced this week that...
19 intellectually disabled murdered in Japan
Killer wanted to reduce the burden on societyPrayers at the care centre Japan’s biggest mass murder since World War II has provoked a debate...
IVF doctors issue new ethical guidelines for errors
After lots of bad publicity, the peak body reactsSome IVF clinics are run like "like a 19th-century grocery", says Art Caplan Cases of mix-ups,...
X-Men: fine in the movies but not in real life
Americans are sceptical of human enhancement Don't say we didn't warn you: the latest instalment has a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 48% Despite the popularity...
Australian doctors dispute IVF regulations after 63-year-old gives birth
Is it "selfish"?The parents of the baby girl The birth of an IVF daughter to a 63-year-old Tasmanian woman in Melbourne has exposed a rift...
Brexit and English utilitarianism
“What does Brexit mean for bioethics?” is our lead story today. Given that the Leavers were not expected to win and that the pundits have...
Getting down and dirty with bioethics
Oxford don tries living as a badger to expand his horizons In its most expansive mode, bioethics deals with the biosphere, our responsibility for all...
British doctors reject neutrality on assisted dying
Fails to surface in the media As one might expect, media coverage of assisted dying (aka assisted suicide or euthanasia or the right to die...
For some Canadian women, surrogacy is sacred
Getting in touch with your inner earth mother goddess The motives for commercial surrogacy may seem relatively straightforward: woman does difficult and risky job; client...
Facing a moral dilemma over driverless cars
A practical application of utilitarian theory spurned by the public Driverless cars pose a quandary when it comes to safety. These autonomous vehicles are programmed...