About every five years, statistics on Dutch euthanasia are released. Figures for 2005, four years after the practice was legalised in the Netherlands, show that...

 The Seattle hospital where a profoundly disabled girl received the controversial "Ashley Treatment" broke the law, says group which conducted an official investigation into the...

 Neuroscientists believe that they have discovered a biological basis for morality. If certain brain cells are knocked out with an aneurism or a tumour, the...

D-Day is approaching for embryonic stem cells, says the CEO of Geron, Tom Okarma. The world's first clinical trial will begin early next year on...

The average payment in the US for egg donation was US$4,217, according to a recent article in the journal Fertility and Sterility. However, at least...

 A US$1.25 billion spending package has been unveiled to make Massachusetts a major centre for embryonic stem cell research. in Boston that the funds would...

Euthanasia campaigners in the UK are commemorating the fifth anniversary of the death of Diane Pretty. She suffered from motor neurone disease and in 2002...

 An editorial in the British Medical Journal has dismissed calls for the non-voluntary euthanasia of newborn babies. Professor Kate Costeloe, of the University of London,...

 After a long and heated debate in the state parliament, Victoria has become to allow therapeutic cloning. The Premier, Steve Bracks, boarded a plane for...

A company has begun to market sex selection kits over the internet in Britain. that couples can determine the sex of their baby at just...

Adding to the number of conditions for which embryos can be designed for nervous parents who want a healthy baby, the possibility of screening for...