Karen Ann Quinlin in 1972 Wikipedia This video explores the profound, real-life story of Karen Ann Quinlan, a 21-year-old woman who fell ...

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Are vulnerabilities desirable, even necessary, to our moral identity as humans? There has been growing interest among ethicist...

Three top US universities have combined with Oxford University Press (OUP) to start the world’s first journal devoted to advances at the...

US scientists were “accomplices after the fact” in Japanese doctors’ war crimes by Michael Cook All of contemporary bioethics s...

By  Amy Julia Becker It sounds pretty basic. A lovely young couple wants children, and they want those children to prosper and grow. The...

As a teacher I never discuss my students on Facebook. I don't even friend students. There is a professional boundary here that needs t...

After President Obama reversed his predecessor's stand on embryo research in 2009 shortly after his inauguration, the battles seemed ...

The French government has announced that it will introduce legislation allowing assisted suicide and some forms of euthanasia. A report b...

Writing in the journal Nature Methods , scientists from Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, part of the Chinese Academy of Sci...

Princeton bioethicist Peter Singer has hopped onto the anti-ageing bandwagon. Writing in Project Syndicate , he says that he has been con...

Blood samples left over from newborn screening tests are a genetic treasure trove which should be available to researchers, argue bioethi...

The American Red Cross is asking people to please call 1-800-RED-CROSS or visit us at redcrossblood.org to find a way to donate if they ca...

Korean scientists will need more than a stiff drink to recover their joie de vivre after stem cell researcher at Seoul National University...

Israeli children with birth defects increasingly sue medical authorities for allowing them to be born. The growth in "wrongful life...

US researchers violated ethical boundaries when they deliberately infected Guatemalan prisoners, mental health patients and prostitutes wit...

An Israeli court has allowed the parents of a dead 17-year-old woman to remove her eggs for future use. This is the first case of its kind ...

A Menlo Park biotech firm said Friday that federal regulators will let it proceed with the world's first human test of a treatment made ...

Scientists at Harvard Medical School have developed an even better way of producing alternatives to human embryonic stem cells (hESCs). The ...