Ethical issues surrounding egg donation in genome editing
Women need adequate counselling Genome editing enables scientists to modify the DNA, the building blocks of life. Different technologies are used, including an innovative technique...
How should chimeric embryo research be regulated?
Amazingly, recent experiments fall between regulatory stools in Australia Experiments with chimeras will lead to greater knowledge and better health. Or that’s the argument of...
Fertility tourism: Australians travelling to US to have ‘designer babies’
It could become legal in Australia within a few years Australian intended parents are spending A$20,000 to select the sex and eye colour of yet-to-be-born...
The brave new world of human genome editing: an Australian perspective
Australian law needs to catch up with scientific developments Scientists around the world are exploring different techniques, including CRISPR/Cas-9, removing genes that cause heritable diseases/...
‘Right to try’ bills passed in US Congress: more harm than good?
The FDA has a real role to play and should not be sidelined On March 21, the US House of Representatives passed two Federal right-to-try...
Untested stem cell therapies finally drawing attention of Australian regulators
There has already been one death in a clinicThe business of for-profit clinics offering unproven stem cell treatments is controversial all over the world. There...