China vows research oversight after gene-editing scandal
China plans to establish a national research ethics advisory committee. China says it plans to establish a national committee to advise policy makers on research...
Academics call for freedom for fearless discussion of gender issues
Signatories include Peter Singer Twelve leading philosophers, including bioethicist Peter Singer, have published an open letter calling for academic freedom when discussing topics of sex...
UPDATES: Jeffrey Epstein. NSW abortion bill. Victoria euthanasia death
Following up important stories of past weeks Disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein (BioEdge, Aug 3) has committed suicide in his New York jail cell. This will...
Exporting ethics
The ever-volatile issue of stem cell research is back on the boil. Earlier this week a Japanese researcher announced that he would be creating human-mouse...
Fudged research results erode people’s trust in experts
Only a modest proportion of all flawed publications are identified and retracted.Reports of research misconduct have been prominent recently and probably reflect wider problems of...
Spanish and US scientists go to China to create human-monkey chimeras
What about the ethics? LATE FLASH! In a stunning example of evading ethical controversy by exporting it, Spanish and American researchers have created monkey-human chimeras...
Japanese scientist to use human-animal hybrids to create organs
He is using a new technique of targeted organ generation A Japanese stem cell scientist has obtained permission to create human-animal chimeras and transplant them...
The bizarre transhumanist fantasies of Jeffrey Epstein
Not just cryonics, but eugenicsWhat’s the thread connecting cryonics, sperm banks, eugenics and transhumanism? The disgraced New York financier Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein is currently in...
New South Wales debates decriminalisation of abortion
A new bill would allow abortion for any reason up to 22 weeks. Politicians in the New South Wales State Parliament are about to commence debate...
Facebook is developing wearable brain-to-computer glasses
Huge potential for a new technology An early research kit of a wearable brain-computer interface device, built by Facebook Reality Labs. Facebook is funding research...
Our expanding circle should include chimpanzees
Supporters issue a chimp manifestoJuly 14 was World Chimpanzee Day / photo Nick Riley As foundational principles of bioethics go, it’s pretty hard to go...
Nitschke keeps on pressing those buttons
Now it is live-streamed suicides Philip Nitschke in front of a marquee advertising "A Time to Die", a documentary about his work The ever-controversial Australian...