In a recent article, Haining et al outline several ethical and regulatory considerations for polygenic risk scores (PRSs), ...

Response to ’African vital force and the permissibility of euthanasia’ Lougheed’s discussion of vital force in metaphysics in African thought and its implications for euthanasia is not only of ...

How should defenders of liberalism think about access to reproductive technologies? Mitochondrial replacement technique (MRT) enables women with pathogenic variations of mitochondrial disease to have ...

No discussion of academic freedom, research integrity, and patient safety could begin with a more disquieting pair of case studies than those of Nancy Olivieri and David Healy. The cumulative impact ...

Although the issue of consent in medical practice has grown immensely in recent years, and it is generally believed that historical cases are unknown, our research amongst original ancient Greek and ...

Advances in genetic diagnostics lead to more patients being diagnosed with hereditary conditions. These findings are often relevant to patients’ relatives. For example, the success of targeted cancer ...

The rapid development of artificial womb technologies means that we must consider if and when it is permissible to kill the human subject of ectogestation—recently termed a ‘gestateling’ by Elizabeth ...

Correspondence to Dr Rach Cosker-Rowland, School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK; r.rowland{at}leeds.ac.uk Gender-affirming healthcare (GAH) ...

1 Faculty of Theology, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium 2 Faculty of Medicine, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, Kapucijnenvoer 35, B-3000 Leuven; ...

1 University of Washington School of Medicine, Department of Bioethics & Humanities, Seattle, Washington, USA 2 University of Washington School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics and Seattle ...