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Highly speculative experimental claims Is it a boy or a girl? Expecting parents may be accustomed to this question, but contrary to what they may...

Philip Nitschke attacks internet censorship Australian euthanasia activist Dr Philip Nitschke is a busy man in the frantic days before the holiday season begins. He...

Twins meet after 28 years Pay close attention because what follows is quite confusing, but it is almost certainly the plot of the next Jodi...

Are patients being informed?Faced with a shortage of kidneys, surgeons are resorting to transplanting cancerous kidneys into desperately ill patients. Body parts from the elderly...

NIH director defends research as ethical US regulators have approved 13 new lines of human embryonic stem cells which will be eligible for Federal funding...

BioEdge is now on Twitter BioEdge is now on Twitter. We spend a lot of time each week surfing in search of stories for the...

Longevity Summit convenes in California What is the world's most urgent problem? With most of us focused on mundane crises like global warming, or the...

Bioethcists Schuklenk and Blackford argue for atheismFrom a professional bioethicist’s point of view, one of the disturbing facts to emerge from the heated debate over...

Did State have authority to order a paternity test? A Connecticut fertility doctor has been accused of using his own sperm to impregnate a patient,...

Republicans warn that rationing has begun Almost no issue is more emotional than health and almost no health issue is more emotional than breast cancer....

Stanford research focuses on reasons for cognitive delays At the moment, 92% of pregnant women who are told that their child has Down syndrome choose...

The successful fertilisation of an egg using biological material from two women may have moved the world closer to three-parent babies. Researchers at St Mother...