Tag: bioethics
First State-Sanctioned Three-Parent Babies to be Born
The children could have serious health consequences — either early or later in life — having been generated, after all, from two broken eggs.
Macaque Monkeys and Human Dignity
Why does the evolution debate matter so intensely?
Medical Coercion Comes to Virginia?
Futile care theory (as I call it) or medical futility allows doctors to unilaterally refuse wanted life-sustaining treatment based on the physician’s values.
With Monkey Success, Cloned Human Baby Is Closer
The successful births came from DNA taken from fetal, not adult, cells. That is the usual course in this research.
Swiss Follies
Switzerland has followed New Zealand and a few other localities to outlaw boiling live lobsters. But that’s just for starters.