Thai court grants Japanese man custody of 13 surrogate children
An extraordinary commercial surrogacy court case has come to a close. Earlier this month BioEdge reported on a court case involving a 28-year-old Japanese man,...
First case report of transgender woman breastfeeding an infant
Modest but functional lactation can be induced in transgender women In another step forward in the transgender movement, a trans woman (a natal male) has...
Assyrian pre-nups
Several of our stories this week deal with end-of-life issues. For a bit of a change, how about an historical diversion? “And when Rachel saw...
Let death be didactic
Why not return to the ancient practice of burying the dead instead of cremating them? The old Jewish cemetery, Prague / National Geographic The burning...
If you want to be a surrogate, make sure you have a lawyer
An American woman almost loses her own childAnother chapter in The Reproductive Revolution, this time (as so many other times) from California via a report...
How far does a right to a child extend?
Another instalment in the Reproductive Revolution, this time from California and Georgia. In 2015, 51-year-old Chester Shannon Moore Jr engaged a surrogate mother in California...
If this is fatherhood, well, I’m a Dutchman
The 18th Century adventurer Giacomo Casanova measured his virility by the number of women he had seduced. After the reproductive revolution, his epigones benchmark theirs...
Dutch fertility doctor accused of using his own sperm
But he died in April so potential children are suing to access DNA materialDr Jan Karbaat was a leading fertility doctor in The Netherlands in...
Recreating the womb for preemies
US researchers are close to an artificial womb for extremely premature babies Researchers have moved a step closer to ectogenesis – brewing babies in an...
Enhancing the disadvantaged
A new edition of the American Journal of Bioethics explores the possibility of remedying social disadvantage through cognitive enhancement. A new edition of the American...
‘Genetic sexual attraction’ could become issue for kids of sperm donors
The British press is a fathomless mine of lurid but thought-provoking, strange-but-true explorations of the dark side of the human condition. Last week's revelation was published in...
UK transgender woman wants to be both father and mother
Another dispatch from the Wild West of assisted reproductive technology. Another dispatch from the Wild West of assisted reproductive technology. The third place contestant in...