Chinese scientists modify human embryos in second experiment
A year after the first genetically-engineered human embryos were created in China, a different Chinese team has repeated the experiment, with much the same results:...
Gendercide becomes an issue in Canada
Indian immigrants bring sex-selection with them. The problem of gendercide has spread from India to Canada, researchers claim in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ)....
‘Genetic sexual attraction’ could become issue for kids of sperm donors
The British press is a fathomless mine of lurid but thought-provoking, strange-but-true explorations of the dark side of the human condition. Last week's revelation was published in...
Sperm donor scandal rocks US
Parents of donor-conceived children are suing a US sperm bank after it was discovered that one of the bank’s donors was a convicted criminal and...
Genetic diagnosis should be a government priority: Savulescu
Julian Savulescu believes the Australian government should subsidise preimplantation genetic diagnosis. Julian Savulescu, together with Monash IVF stakeholder Kelton Tremellen, has called on the Australian...
Treatment disagreement gets ugly in Western Australia
A Perth hospital has obtained a court order to force chemotherapy on the child. The parents of a six-year-old West Australian boy have spoken of...
Should students learn about declining fertility?
Is this a straw in the wind? After decades of educating students in the fine art of suppressing their fertility, the British Fertility Society sponsored...
Former Australian PM Bob Hawke backs euthanasia
Criticises cowardly politicians. Former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke Former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke has emerged as a strong supporter of legalised euthanasia....
Genetic ties and the Archbishop of Canterbury
Justin Welby and biological father Anthony Montague Browne In events which seem copied from the script of a B-grade potboiler, the Anglican Archbishop...
Racism and bioethics
A new edition of the American Journal of Bioethics considers the role that bioethics can play in addressing racism A new edition of the American...
No monkey business: pig to baboon organ transplants increasingly successful
A team of researchers in the US have performed a series of remarkably successful interspecies organ transplants. A team of researchers in the US have...
More changes to donor law considered in NSW
The State government New South Wales is considering tightening rules regulating embryo donation The State government New South Wales is considering tightening rules regulating embryo...