A leading UK bioethics advisory body has weighed in on the debate around human genetic modification, concluding that heritable genome editing – modifying the DNA of an egg, sperm or embryo with ...

Applying its abiding ethic of life to modern medicine, the Vatican on Friday condemned genetic engineering and other innovations in biotechnology that have evolved since the introduction of in-vitro ...

Russell Blackford is a Fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. His views do not necessarily reflect those of the Institute. In a recent op-ed in the Boston Globe, high-profile ...

Using the recent debate over the Facebook-Cornell "emotional contagion" study as a starting point, an international team of research ethics scholars begin mapping the ethics terrain of large-scale ...

The Vatican has issued new ethical guidelines in response to the biomedical advances of the last 20 years, and has come down hard on assisted reproduction technologies and genetic engineering. The ...

China has issued a new national bioethics guideline on research involving humans, further expanding the regulatory scope of such life sciences and medical studies. Analysts said the latest guideline ...

The government said yesterday that it hoped to either propose legislative changes or issue a presidential decree before the end of the year to revise the country’s biological ethic rules. The ...

Patents on DNA sequences are granted too easily, too often and with too little scrutiny, says an investigation into gene patenting by Britain's foremost bioethics body. Thousands of recent patents ...

France May Face Sperm Shortage If New IVF Rules Come Into Effect: Report Under existing law in France, IVF is available only to opposite-sex couples, and only for reasons of infertility or the risk of ...