China’s Ministry of Health will crack down on illegal human organ harvesting and transplants, a statement on the ministry’s website said last week. China’s Ministry...

A new, highly accurate, blood test can determine a baby’s sex as early as 7 weeks into the pregnancy.A new, highly accurate, blood test can...

Doctors at Zurich University Children’s Hospital have performed surgery on fetuses still inside their mothers’ wombs. Doctors at Zurich University Children’s Hospital have performed surgery...

One of the many ideological battlegrounds in bioethics is whether children are harmed if they are the offspring of sperm donors. A well-publicised report last...

Doctors and scientists who add their names to medical articles they have not written should be charged with professional misconduct and fraud, Canadian legal experts...

  The American surrogacy industry has been battered by the news that a leading broker pleaded guilty to charges of baby selling. Theresa M. Erickson,...

China has vowed to strengthen measures to prevent sex-selective abortions and close a widening gender gap in a country that already has tens of millions...

An Israeli court has allowed the parents of a dead 17-year-old woman to remove her eggs for future use.An Israeli court has allowed the parents...

Bishops, editors and securities regulators may not be the only ones to lose jobs for failing to detect scoundrels in their ranks. Now a committee...

Hi there, I must confess that I have a weakness for B-grade science fiction movies, so I am looking forward to Rise of the Planet...

Japanese researchers have found a way to turn mouse embryonic stem cells into sperm. A Kyoto University team coaxed mouse ESCs into sperm precursors, called...

Imagine this. You are the biological father of nine-year-old daughter, although you are not living with the mother. You have helped to support the mother....