Australian doctors in firing line in stoush over asylum-seekers
New law gives medicos a pivotal role Australian doctors have become an integral part of a bitter political battle over how to process asylum-seekers. At...
Controversy dogs ‘assisted dying’ poll of UK doctors
Allegations that the Royal College of Physicians has been hijacked A controversial poll by the Royal College of Physicians, in the UK, is expected to...
Singer and Savulescu back germline editing
He Jiankui’s fundamental ethical misstep was exposing children to risk, not gene editing The debate continues over the ethics of genetically editing the genome and...
Embryo profiling could be a short-cut to ‘designer babies’
Technically feasible but ‘repugnant’, says one geneticist While genome modification for complex traits like IQ may be the stuff of science fiction, not science fact,...
Latest revelations about sperm donation secrets
From The Netherlands, Israel and the US It may be hard to wind up our readers’ interest in abuses of sperm donation after the news...
Consent not a defence, court tells body modification artist
Tongue-splitting is not ‘reasonable’ Dr Evil Dr Evil, a British body modification artist, has been found guilty of three counts of grievous bodily harm for...
Rights of the dead and the living clash when scientists extract DNA from human remains
Research on the dead ultimately affects the livingEgyptian mummy / AP The remains of a 6-inch long mummy from Chile are not those of a...
34 elderly are dead. Why haven’t you read about it?
What may turn out to be one of the biggest crimes in US history is being ignored Abuse of the disabled and elderly is a...
We’re back, again!
Hi there, Apologies for the non-publication of BioEdge last weekend. We're back on track now. In the meantime, we have managed to create a new...
‘Ethics dumping’ taints organ transplant research
Expert demands that 400 papers be retracted In the Age of The Donald, “dumping” is amongst the vilest of epithets. Countries like China have driven,...
You’ve heard of the Wild East of bioethics? What about the Wild West?
Chinese bioethicists defend their country's reputationIn the wake of China’s gene-editing scandal, Chinese bioethicists have tried to correct mistaken impressions of an ethical “Wild East”...
Countdown: one year to a complete cure for cancer
Israeli scientists claim that a cheap no-side-effects cure will be available soon In the Just-for-Fun Department: a team of Israeli scientists has claimed in the...