Man discovers that partner had sperm swapped for lover’s during IVF
Doctors at the Moscow clinic cooperated with the woman's request. A Russian man has successfully sued an IVF clinic in Moscow after his wife secretly...
Buyers of designer babies will be overwhelmed by choice
How does one choose amongst 10,000 options? The dream of “designer babies” is probably further off than most of us think because of all the...
The children of European vaccine sceptics are getting measles
Nearly 40 people have died in 2018 According to the World Health Organisation more than 41,000 people in Europe had been infected with measles in...
IVF kids risk early arterial hypertension
Larger studies are needed to confirm results Children conceived through assisted reproductive technologies may be at an increased risk of developing arterial hypertension early in...
A doctor who stayed
Mohammed al-Bardan explains to the New York Times why he cares for patients in a rebel-held district of SyriaHospital in Idlib destroyed in 2016 / Médecins...
Moral fluoridation
Why do I keep screwing things up? This is, IMHO, the first question of moral philosophy. I know what the decent, sensible and right option...
Uh-oh! Infanticide is back: why not, asks Finnish bioethicist
Pro-life arguments do not succeed in eliminating it as a morally permissible option Arguments which pose infanticide as a moral option have put bioethicists in...
Protecting the world through moral bioenhancement
It should be compulsory but secret, argues an American bioethicist The co-existence of large numbers of Very Bad Hombres and readily available means of mass...
A world of Methuselahs?
We should charge ahead with life extension research, says a philosopher Life extension—slowing or halting human aging—is now being taken seriously by many scientists. Although...
The difficult bit is surviving to 100. After that, it’s cruising
Death rates level out after 105 Jeanne Calment, of France, who died at 122 Want to be a supercentenarian? The chances of reaching the ripe...
Brown researcher under fire for questioning transgender narrative
Journal and university distance themselves from controversial article Last week BioEdge reported that PLOS One had published the first serious study of a new condition...
Euthanasia in Belgium: updates on a social experiment
Belgium seems to be treating the victims of child abuse by domestic violence, neglect and sexual abuse by killing them Every two years the Belgium...