Ethicists at the world's leading association for reproductive technology have decided to extend a moratorium on reproductive cloning, but only for a single year. The...

Another new product unveiled at the ESHRE conference could allow women to freeze their eggs so that they can become pregnant at a time of...

A British IVF clinic want to create autism-free babies for couples who fear that they might have an affected child. A team at University College...

Overseas couples who want to choose the sex of a child are spending US$20,000 in American IVF clinics because the US is one of the...

A year ago, a Harvard study suggested that the medical dogma that women have a limited supply of eggs was wrong, exciting much comment in...

European Parliament: The European Parliament has approved funding for embryonic stem cell research. Although the funds will only be available to the three EU members...

 An ethical adviser to the British Medical Association has firmly backed non-voluntary euthanasia for patients who are too ill to ask for death. Professor Len...

 The practice of selectively aborting girls is spreading from India and China to Canada as immigrant communities take root there. Normally the ratio of boy...

 Harvard University has decided to become the first non-commercial institution in the US to attempt human embryo cloning. Researchers will focus on diabetes, neurodegenerative diseases...

American institutional review boards are drowning in paperwork and the resulting frustration could "alienate some researchers enough to turn them into scofflaws", says an editorial...

The British doctor who sparked an international health scare by claiming the standard measles, mumps, rubella vaccine was linked to autism may be charged with...

Some American patients get priority on organ donor lists by signing up on several lists, creating a system in which the wealthy have a better...