A report to the Australian Prime Minister and his Cabinet could undercut the support of some parliamentarians for the legalisation of therapeutic cloning. The engine...

Dutch authorities are alarmed by the discovery that a group of high school girls had egged each other on to commit suicide with macabre emails...

Euthanasia is back in the Australian headlines again. This time a maverick parliamentarian in South Australia has used parliamentary privilege to deliver a speech detailing...

A small US biotech's claim in the journal Nature that it had found a way to obtain "ethical" embryonic stem cells is looking more and...

Teenagers are to be discouraged from getting cosmetic surgery in New South Wales, after Premier Morris Iemma discovered that a recent contestant on Australia's version...

With perhaps 100 million species of living organisms on Planet Earth, the tree of life might seem full to bursting. But not to some scientists....

OBESITY AND IVF: Severely obese women should be denied access to free fertility treatment, the British Fertility Society said recently. Women with a body mass...

History or hype? This was the question swirling about the widely publicised announcement by a Massachusetts company that it had mastered a technique for creating...

Some Israeli women are taking advantage of liberal abortion laws to sex-select their babies. An article in the latest issue of the Israel Medical Association...

 If you are seeking bioethics at the coalface, London's Daily Mail is the newspaper for you. Its in-depth interviews with colourful personalities whose lives have...

Earlier this month the US Food and Drug Administration shut down a North Carolina company which supplied body parts to medical schools and tissue banks...

Futuristic and wacky they may be, but transhumanists are beginning to show up on the radar of bioethical discussion. One of the latest transhumanist visions...