Britain is staring down the barrel of an abortion crisis, because fewer and fewer doctors are willing to do the procedure. According to the Royal...

The grief of mothers of stillborn babies is set to clash with abortion rights in California. Legislators there are preparing to debate a bill which...

The South Korean government has done a lot of huffing and puffing about restoring the ethics and credibility of Korean stem cell science after the...

The issue of whether there is a right to bear children surfaced again in Britain after a woman lost an epic fight in the courts...

 Adult stem cells may have cured young Brazilian diabetics of their ailment. "It's the first time in the history of type 1 diabetes where people...

British researchers have turned human bone marrow tissue into primitive sperm cells, raising hopes that it may be possible for women to produce their own...

 An Austrian court is studying whether a 26-year-old chimpanzee should be given human rights and treated as an asylum-seeker from Sierra Leone. Hiasl, a lively...

 Once again, the US Senate will be debating embryonic stem cell research. It will consider two bills this week: one which is nearly the same...

In response to international pressure, China has revised its regulations for organ transplants. The State Council, or Cabinet, has banned the sale of human organs...

Pressure is growing on the British government to permit the creation of human-animal hybrid embryos for stem cell research. After a recent public consultation, it...

Last week BioEdge's lead story featured research which points to the brain as the source of ethics. An even more daring theory is that the...