The Australian Government has granted its first licenses for research on embryos to two IVF clinics. Sydney IVF and Melbourne IVF have been given a...

Two steps forward, one step backwards seems to be the theme of adult stem cell research. As part of the forward march, researchers announced this...

 The 50th anniversary of the first trials of the contraceptive pill this year is shining a new light on the low ethical standards of their...

The new field of bio-history needs a code of ethics, says a Chicago group of scientists, historians and lawyers in the journal Science. Biohistory involves...

Bioethics needs to change its focus or risk becoming "a source of entertainment", says a bioethicist at Montreal's McGill University. Dr Leigh Turner says that...

 Kits for choosing your baby's sex are proliferating on the internet even though conventional doctors deride them as snake oil. One home-use product is GenSelect,...

A surrogate mother in Pennsylvania who gave birth to triplets last year has been awarded legal custody after she argued that the biological father and...

 US President George W. Bush this week signed a law confirming the rights of foetuses by making it a crime to harm an "unborn child"...

President Bush's council of bioethics advisers has recommended tighter regulation of assisted reproduction in a lengthy report which skirts controversy. Although was sceptical of assisted...

Although South Africa has become a linchpin in the world transplant tourism market over the past five years, its government, doctors and hospitals have turned...

 With the help of Hollywood glitterati whose children have diabetes, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (JDRF) is lobbying hard to get California voters to...

A government committee in Sweden has recommended that therapeutic cloning be legalised and that scientists be allowed to do research on germline gene therapy. Although...