“Mitochondrial transfer” is a misnomer: Stuart Newman
A leading US scientist has delivered a broadside at the scientific ignorance and spin involved in the debate. Both in the US and the UK,...
“Mitochondrial transfer” is dangerous: Maureen Condic
Some women are carriers of a genetic disease because of defective mitochondria. Replace hers with healthy mitochondria donated by a another woman. Result: a healthy...
US must debate “mitochondrial transfer”: Thomas H. Murray
The former head of the Hastings Centre for Bioethics has written a forceful opinion editorial in Science calling for “a nationwide conversation about current and...
Reasons for sticking around
Hi there, Rational suicide is an idea that has a long history, but it is being revived now in the debate over euthanasia and assisted...
Are totipotent cells really embryos?
Stem cells are stem cells, says an expert. They are not and cannot be embryos. Major developments in stem cell science tend to revive scruples...
US Office of Research Integrity shackled by bureaucracy
The head of the US agency for investigating scientific misconduct has just resigned after two years of struggle with a “remarkably dysfunctional” Federal bureaucracy. Quis...
Compassionate use on trial
#savejosh? But what about the rest? In a story that has garnered worldwide attention, drug company Chimerix has given a seven-year-old American boy access to...
The resurrection of the “technically dead”
British woman resuscitated after life support removedLorna Baillie with daughter and husband The family of a 51-year-old British woman is suing the government for £5...
Assisted suicide is too dangerous in times of economic crisis, says disabled UK peer
Moves to legalise assisted suicide in Britain are a threat to the disabled during a time of economic hardship, says Baroness Campbell of Surbiton, a...
Doubts mount about new stem cell paper
The world’s leading science journal, Nature, may end up with egg on its face as complaints mount about a recent paper on a radical new...
Dissecting the Society for Mutual Autopsy
The Society of Mutual Autopsy was an organisation formed in the late 1800s to advance neuroscience by examining dead members’ brains and to promote atheism...
Suicide can be rational, says editor of Bioethics
For some people with depression suicide is a rational response to their suffering Brutus falls on his sword. As Quebec debates the legalisation of...