Another IVF mix-up creates a child and destroys a marriage
Caucasian New Jersey couple have child with Asian features Drew Wasilewski and Kristina Koedderich For headline writers, IVF is the gift that keeps on giving....
‘Artificial embryos’ created at the University of Michigan
‘It’s uncanny how much it is like a human embryo’ Embryoids growing in the device / University of Michigan American scientists are creating embryo-like structures which...
Ezekiel Emanuel: intimations of mortality
A leading bioethicist reflects upon his lifespan Sixty-two-year-old Ezekiel Emanuel, chair of the University of Pennsylvania’s department of medical ethics and health policy, as well...
A new blockbuster: sperm donor reality TV?
Could be coming to Channel 4 in the UK Shipmates: another chapter in Channel 4's bioethical research Wanted: a bioethics consultant for Channel 4 in...
More on conscientious objection
Conscientious objection to procedures like abortion and euthanasia often features in BioEdge. There is a growing consensus that CO has no place in modern medicine....
In defence of conscientious objection
Why not make clinically indicated procedures the benchmark? Photo by Hush Naidoo on Unsplash Over the last few years there has been a vigorous and fascinating debate about...
Septuagenarian mothers
Below is an article about a 73-year-old Indian woman who has just given birth to twin boys. This is a story which used to fly...
Christian hospital system in US sacks doctor over support for assisted suicide
Conflict set up between freedom of speech and freedom of religion A Christian health system in Denver has set off a firestorm of controversy by...
Mini-brains created from stem cells
Their brain waves resemble pre-term babies False color image of a slice of human brain organoid from a patient with autism spectrum disorder / Alysson...
73-year-old Indian woman gives birth to twins
“The happiest time of my life,” says her husband Mangayamma Yaramati and her husband, Sitarama Rajarao, at their baby shower A 73-year-old woman has given birth...
Brain-dead Czech woman gives birth after 117 days
Child born healthy A Czech woman has given birth 117 days after brain death. Doctors at Brno University Hospital kept the woman alive for 17...
Demography still on the political agenda
Bernie Sanders stirs up a hornets’ nest Photo by Vidar Nordli-Mathisen on Unsplash Population policy was in the headlines around the world this week. US Senator Bernie Sanders,...