BioEdge

 Switzerland's highest court has ruled that mentally ill people should be allowed to ask doctors to kill them. "It must be recognised that an incurable,...

 Shakespeare called it "self-slaughter". Oregon bureaucrats call it "participation in the Death with Dignity Act". It's tough finding a word to describe suicide which appeals...

The UK's fertility authority is expected later this week to give a green light for researchers to pay women ?250 for their eggs. Donors will...

At the same time, an article in the journal Thrombosis and Thrombolysis has warned of a possible increase in side effects of fertility drugs, including...

The descendants of the Aboriginal people of Australia's island state of Tasmania are used to dealing with museums. Their ancestors' bones are treated as a...

Although medical sex selection for genetic diseases has a halo of respectability amongst practitioners of reproductive medicine, social sex selection is far more controversial. In...

Vasectomies: Vasectomies may increase the risk of a debilitating brain disease, primary progressive aphasia, according to an article in the journal Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology....

The editor of BioEdge will be on holidays for the next three weeks. The next issue will be published on February 20. BRITISH SPECIALIST TARGETED...

 Altruism can be detected with brain scans, claim researchers from Duke University in North Carolina. In an article in Nature Neuroscience, they report that they...

 The new governor of New York, Eliot Spitzer, has called for a US$2 billion 10-year bond issue for research and development in the state --...

The legal and moral quandaries of the burgeoning new field of neuroethics "threaten to proliferate into every part of our lives", according to a feature...

The New York Times has published a concise defence of the Bush policy on stem cells by the former executive director of the President's Council...