GERMAN BIOETHICIST DEFENDS SEX SELECTION FOR WESTERNERS
Although medical sex selection for genetic diseases has a halo of respectability amongst practitioners of reproductive medicine, social sex selection is far more controversial. In...
IN BRIEF: vasectomies, fibs, stem cells
Vasectomies: Vasectomies may increase the risk of a debilitating brain disease, primary progressive aphasia, according to an article in the journal Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology....
BIOEDGE GOES ON HOLIDAYS
The editor of BioEdge will be on holidays for the next three weeks. The next issue will be published on February 20. BRITISH SPECIALIST TARGETED...
THE SHINING LIGHTS OF ALTRUISM
Altruism can be detected with brain scans, claim researchers from Duke University in North Carolina. In an article in Nature Neuroscience, they report that they...
NEW YORK GOVERNOR SEEKS STEM CELL BOND ISSUE
The new governor of New York, Eliot Spitzer, has called for a US$2 billion 10-year bond issue for research and development in the state --...
THE BRAVE NEW WORLD OF NEUROETHICS
The legal and moral quandaries of the burgeoning new field of neuroethics "threaten to proliferate into every part of our lives", according to a feature...
EMBRYO DEFENCE PUBLISHED IN NEW YORK TIMES
The New York Times has published a concise defence of the Bush policy on stem cells by the former executive director of the President's Council...
IS BUSH THE BEST FRIEND OF EMBRYO RESEARCH?
Writing in the libertarian magazine Reason, Ronald Bailey asks whether Federal restrictions have helped, rather than hindered, embryonic stem cell research. Because the Bush Administration...
TOP BRITISH SURGEONS CASH IN ON BREAST ENLARGEMENT
Some of the leading figures in British cosmetic surgery are cashing in on the growing demand for breast enlargements by slashing their prices to tap...
IN BRIEF: survival, kidney sales, genetic privacy
Survival: The first embryo of 1,400 rescued from a flooded New Orleans IVF laboratory has been born. His parents have named him Noah. Two weeks...
READY-TO-IMPLANT EMBRYOS AVAILABLE AT BUDGET PRICES
The US Federal Drug Administration says that it will not investigate a Texas woman who is running a embryo brokerage business. However, the controversy over...
DISABILITY ACTIVISTS PROTEST “ASHLEY TREATMENT”
Stunting the growth of a severely physically and intellectually disabled American girl has been denounced by disability activists. As reported in last week's BioEdge, doctors...