New Chinese law bans alteration of human genome
Retrospective legislation justifies the jailing of He Jiankui He Jiankui speaking at the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing China has updated its criminal...
‘Armenia is facing a demographic catastrophe’
Caught between low birth rates, high infertility and high emigration Monumental statue of Mother Armenia in Yeveran "Armenia is facing a demographic catastrophe," Nune Pashayan,...
Commissioning parents panicking over surrogate mothers’ vaccinations
The Covid-19 pandemic has affected the surrogacy industry The intersection of the Covid-19 pandemic and surrogacy has not been a happy one. After international border...
Amitai Etzioni wants Biden to form bioethics commission
Very concerned about genetic engineering The eminent communitarian scholar Amitai Etzioni has called upon President Biden to re-establish a bioethics commission to deal with the...
Spain chooses euthanasia
Spain became the fifth country in the world to legalise euthanasia and assisted suicide this week. It joins the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and Canada. The vote in the...
The deficiencies and dangers of ‘radical individualism’
Humans are not just isolated minds; they have bodies and need relationships O. Carter Snead, What it means to be human: The case for the...
Mouse embryos grown in vitro by Israeli researchers
Another step in “an explosion of new techniques and ideas for studying early development” of human embryos comes from Israel, where researchers have successfully grown...
Several research groups create ‘artificial’ embryos
iBlastoids which could bypass the need for stopping research at 14 days An artificial blastocyst created from human stem cells.Credit: UT Southwestern Four lab groups have...
Spain becomes the fifth country to legalise euthanasia
‘Today we are a more humane, just and freer country,’ says Prime Minister Javier Bardem in Mar Adentro Spain became the fifth country in the...
Portugal’s high court rejects euthanasia law
A split court agreed that the bill lacked ‘the necessary rigour’ Portugal’s Parliament voted to legalise euthanasia and assisted suicide in January. But this week,...
Russia’s liberal surrogacy laws under threat
‘Russia is not an incubator,’ says deputy speaker of Duma “Russia’s liberal surrogacy rules are under threat,” reports The Economist. The country has become a...
Britain’s first birth control clinic opened 100 years ago
But historians say that it is entangled with eugenics and racism Marie Stopes House in Whitfield Street near Tottenham Court Road was Britain's first family...