The well-educated are significantly more open to the idea of "designing" babies than the poorly educated, according to a new study by psychologists at the...

Slate's biotechnology columnist William Saletan has suggested that there really is a "slippery slope" in bioethics -- at least for designer babies. He points out...

Dignitas: Four Britons have ended their lives in Switzerland, with the help of the Zurich's Dignitas clinic, in the past six weeks. So far, 54...

Severely brain-damaged and apparently unresponsive patients may be conscious, British researchers have discovered. In a startling study published in the journal Science, brain imaging techniques...

 A company accused of misleading the media and the public with claims of creating "ethical" embryonic stem cells was hammered by politicians, the media and...

A campaigner for prisoners' welfare in the UK has called for voluntary euthanasia for prisoners. Mark Leech, a former prisoner and the editor of the...

A fertility expert in the UK has urged career women to freeze their eggs if they want to have children later in life. Dr Gillian...

Another promising method of producing embryonic stem cells without destroying embryos is being studied at Michigan State University. In the Proceedings of the National Academy...

Human embryonic stem cells could be ideal for drug testing, say Israeli scientists. Karl Skorecki and Maty Tzukerman, of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, have...

We're not sure whether supporters or opponents of IVF and stem cell research will find this brief video useful. Perhaps both.    IN BRIEF: Israel;...

Massachusetts voters must have thought that their politicians' bunfight over human embryonic stem cells was past history. Last year, overriding Governor Mitt Romney's veto, the...