BioEdge

History or hype? This was the question swirling about the widely publicised announcement by a Massachusetts company that it had mastered a technique for creating...

Some Israeli women are taking advantage of liberal abortion laws to sex-select their babies. An article in the latest issue of the Israel Medical Association...

 If you are seeking bioethics at the coalface, London's Daily Mail is the newspaper for you. Its in-depth interviews with colourful personalities whose lives have...

Earlier this month the US Food and Drug Administration shut down a North Carolina company which supplied body parts to medical schools and tissue banks...

Futuristic and wacky they may be, but transhumanists are beginning to show up on the radar of bioethical discussion. One of the latest transhumanist visions...

Sperm donation: The UK has effectively banned the sale of fresh sperm over the internet. All samples gathered by on-line providers must be frozen and...

The website of the shows what most voters, and not just in Missouri, expect from embryonic stem cell (ESC) research. The Coalition is battling for...

 Singapore is jockeying for a position as a world leader in stem cell research. Researchers disgruntled with meagre funding or restrictive regulation in their home...

What should stem cell scientists do when their moral views clash with society's? First, set up an eminent persons committee and call for consultation and...

Australian politicians are gearing up for a conscience vote on therapeutic cloning. Health minister Tony Abbott is doing his best to demonise it by raising...

 Conservative US Senator Sam Brownback has introduced a bill which would bar doctors from prescribing federally controlled drugs to be used in assisted suicide. This...

A 16-year-old cancer patient in Virginia has reached an agreement with a court about how to treat his Hodgkin's disease. Abraham Cherrix and his parents...