US doctors transplant pig heart into human
Surgeons in the United States have implanted the heart of a genetically modified pig into a human patient in a global first, the University of...
Francis Collins reflects on 12 years of leading NIH
Francis Collins is stepping down as director of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) after more than 12 years on the job. He was...
Does transgender medicine have a sound philosophical foundation?
There are many angles from which to study the phenomenon of the transgender movement – psychological, sociological, historical, medical, political … -- but surely the...
Agonising medical decisions made by French doctors in the Sahel
Doctors in developed countries deal with ethical issues all the time, but seldom are they dramatic or gut-wrenching. An article in BMC Medical Ethics describes...
Octopuses, crabs and lobsters will be protected as sentient beings in UK
Octopuses, crabs and lobsters will receive greater welfare protection in UK law following a report from the London School of Economics which suggests that there is strong...
This is probably the world’s biggest surrogacy family
February was the last time BioEdge visited Christina Ozturk and her husband Galip at their home in the Black Sea resort city of Batumi, Georgia....
Slovakia apologies for decades of forced sterilisations of Roma women
The government of Slovakia has made a formal apology to thousands of Roma [Gypsy] women who had been forcibly sterilized over several decades. The government's...
UNESCO issues guidelines on artificial intelligence
UNESCO has adopted an agreement defining the common values and principles needed to ensure the healthy development of artificial intelligence. AI is present in everyday...
Black Friday discounts on babies from Ukraine
Commodification chronicles. It’s Black Friday in Kiev! The Ukrainian clinic BioTexCom is offering 3% off!!!!! on its surrogacy and fertility packages. The discount deal runs...
‘The Golden Age of status surrogacy is here’
Now that we’re broached the topic of commodification, let’s turn to Town & Country, America’s lifestyle magazine for the seriously wealthy. One of its articles...
Peter Singer wins ‘Nobel Prize for philosophy’
Despite its importance, philosophy is not generally regarded as a lucrative profession. Perhaps the Berggruen Prize will change that. It is a US$1 million given...
The fine line between science students and ghouls
Commodification files. The widow of a 95-year-old Louisiana war veteran who died of Covid-19 was shocked to discover that her husband’s body – which he...