Maverick 1: Panos Zavos
Rogue IVF doctor once again claims to have tried to clone children. Just for the record, Dr Panos Zavos is up to his old cloning...
Maverick 2: Philip Nitschke
Australian euthanasia activist Dr Philip Nitschke will not be allowed to promote his cause in Singapore, police have decided. Nitschke had planned to give a...
UK studying whether embryos can be stored for spare parts
Next step in saviour sibling debateThe UK’s fertility watchdog is studying whether couples can create and store embryos to serve as spare parts. The controversial...
Is there a right not to procreate?
What about dead sons and fiances?The question of harvesting sperm from recently-deceased sons and fiances pops up in the news from time to time. The...
EU committee to study ethics of cyborgs
... and other issues of human enhancementHuman enhancement is not at the top of most bioethical agendas, but it is slowing moving up the ladder....
Gloves come off in California fertility business
Underside of the industry is not for the faint-hearted Here are some eye drops for starry-eyed clients of men in white coats who help desperate...
Can women’s biological clock be reset?
Mouse research is positiveFertility scientists are excited by the possibility that women may be able to reset their biological clocks. Writing in Nature Cell Biology,...
Obeying the Leviathan
A post-modernist looks at conscience The "conscience clause" has reached the American intellectual stratosphere, Stanley Fish's New York Times blog "Think Again". Fish, one of...
Stem cells: You heard it first on Oprah
"the stem cell debate is dead" The news about stem cell research without ethical controversies has filtered through to the viewers of Oprah Winfrey. In...
How many embryos are destroyed in IVF?
95 out of 100 do not survive The most ethically contentious issue in the IVF industry is the destruction of embryos. But how many are...
NEJM opposes conscientious objection for doctors
We need more selfless professionalism The prestigious New England Journal of Medicine opposes conscientious objection to abortion and contraception in the US. In a stinging...
President’s Council on Bioethics criticises President
Outgoing Council members defend Bush’s record Under the Bush Administration, the President’s Council on Bioethics produced some fine background papers on highly complex and contentious...