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Could alarmist demographic predictions, explain hard birth control measures, especially in developing countries? It is generally agreed that it is difficult to make demographic projections. The United Nations makes projections of this type for the world as a whole and for...

Suppsosed suuport for infertility tratements featured by Apple and Facebook  is really an interest in employers “care for loved ones and raise their families”? Introduction. Last 15th October, NBC News featured a news story that was then picked up by a national...

Last 5th October, the birth of the first child born to a woman who had received a uterus transplant was published in medical journal The Lancet (doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61728-1). The birth occurred on 4th September. From a medical point of view, this is clearly an important...

Debate is still raging in a philosophical-legal-scientific field, although it was back in 2009 that an Italian court reduced a murderer’s sentence by one year because experts identified that the person concerned had a gene called MAOA (monoamine oxidase A), which is...

Defining which biological entity can be considered a human embryo is an outstanding bioethical issue, since it can be manipulated depending  on whether it is recognised as so or not. This affects a great many biomedical practices, especially in the ethical assessment of the use...

Recent press reports have highlighted what appears to be a major advance towards the creation of artificial life, when they reported the total synthesis of the first chromosome of an organism, a yeast, that is biologically more similar to humans than to bacteria[1]. The study was...

One of our colleagues, a doctor in Molecular Biology who is currently conducting post-doctoral research in the United States, mentioned to us that he had “recently discovered that the cells with which he was working come from human embryos, the famous HEK-293 cells”....