Chinese scientists modify human embryos in second experiment
A year after the first genetically-engineered human embryos were created in China, a different Chinese team has repeated the experiment, with much the same results:...
Gendercide becomes an issue in Canada
Indian immigrants bring sex-selection with them. The problem of gendercide has spread from India to Canada, researchers claim in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ)....
‘Genetic sexual attraction’ could become issue for kids of sperm donors
The British press is a fathomless mine of lurid but thought-provoking, strange-but-true explorations of the dark side of the human condition. Last week's revelation was published in...
Should students learn about declining fertility?
Is this a straw in the wind? After decades of educating students in the fine art of suppressing their fertility, the British Fertility Society sponsored...
Former Australian PM Bob Hawke backs euthanasia
Criticises cowardly politicians. Former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke Former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke has emerged as a strong supporter of legalised euthanasia....
Genetic ties and the Archbishop of Canterbury
Justin Welby and biological father Anthony Montague Browne In events which seem copied from the script of a B-grade potboiler, the Anglican Archbishop...
Testing anti-paedophilia drugs
A randomised trial raises ethical complications How do you run an ethical randomised trial to stop paedophilia? This is the question that hovers over research...
Can we slim down the welfare state without eugenics?
A British academic has created a storm of controversy over his proposal to reduce the welfare-dependent population The restless rent-a-crowd of British university protesters has...
The very rich are different from you and me
IVF and Russian money do not mix wellOlga Mirimskaya “Let me tell you about the very rich,” wrote American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald. “They...
Ban on embryo research survives challenge in Italy
Constitutional Court rules that embryos are too precious to be used in research. Italy’s Constitutional Court has reaffirmed the legitimacy of a ban on human...
The company they keep
Why has Britain's scientific establishment named its new research institute after a eugenicist? “Europe’s superlab”, a £700 million research institute, the Francis Crick Institute, opens...
Trump’s muddled thoughts on abortion
There’s probably no other country in which bioethics plays a greater role in politics than in the United States. Or at least one bioethical issue...