CHINA

Did the Chinese government back the controversial gene-edited babies experiment?

Michael Cook | 02 March 2019 | Comments

tags: china, gene-editing

More questions about the increasingly complicated scandal

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China may be building its massive DNA security database without citizens’ consent

Xavier Symons | 24 February 2019 | Comments

tags: china, genetic privacy, privacy

Reports suggest that DNA samples are obtained from free medical check-ups

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‘Ethics dumping’ taints organ transplant research

Michael Cook | 10 February 2019 | Comments

tags: china, informed consent, transplant ethics

Expert demands that 400 papers be retracted

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You’ve heard of the Wild East of bioethics? What about the Wild West?

Michael Cook | 10 February 2019 | Comments

tags: bioethics, china

Chinese bioethicists defend their country's reputation

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Research integrity, Chinese style

Michael Cook | 16 December 2018 | Comments

tags: china, social credit system

A novel way of enforcing ethical behaviour

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He did it: uproar over Chinese gene-edited babies

Michael Cook | 01 December 2018 | Comments

tags: china, gene-editing

Even ‘progressive’ bioethicists slam leap into the future

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Harvard profs defend ‘rogue scientist’

Michael Cook | 01 December 2018 | Comments

tags: china, gene-editing, harvard university

Dr He has powerful sympathisers

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China is struggling to undo a one-child culture

Xavier Symons | 28 July 2018 | Comments

tags: abortion, birth control, china, divorce, one child policy, pro-natalism, reproductive revolution

Authorities are now pro-natalist -- but Chinese society is not.

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Old habits die hard

Michael Cook | 21 April 2018 | Comments

tags: china

Should China get an F in bioethics?

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Wanted: ideologically sound Chinese sperm. Willing to pay top renminbi

Michael Cook | 14 April 2018 | Comments

tags: china, eugenics, sperm donation

Must also love the socialist motherland

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In post-one-child-policy China posthumous conception is a matter of desperation

Michael Cook | 14 April 2018 | Comments

tags: china, one child policy, reproductive revolution, surrogacy

Grandparents sue to perpetuate bloodline

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First cloned monkeys born in China

Michael Cook | 27 January 2018 | Comments

tags: china, cloning

But scientists disavow any interest in human cloning

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Chinese black-market surrogacy is booming

Michael Cook | 13 January 2018 | Comments

tags: china, surrogacy

Village women cash in

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Embryo gene-editing in Canada: Ethicists urge caution

Xavier Symons | 07 October 2017 | Comments

tags: canada, china, gene editing

Two Canadian ethicists defend a moratorium on embryo gene-editing, arguing that it reflects an international consensus

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China rushes into embryo selection

Michael Cook | 19 August 2017 | Comments

tags: china, eugenics, pgd, preimplantation genetic diagnosis

Very little ethical push-back exists

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Embryonic stem cell trials to launch in China

Xavier Symons | 03 June 2017 | Comments

tags: china, embryonic stem cells, stem cells

China will trial the use of embryonic stem-cells to treat Parkinson’s and macular degeneration.

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Fighting the scourge of ‘red envelopes’ for China’s doctors

Michael Cook | 28 May 2017 | Comments

tags: china, corruption, medical ethics, red envelopes

Is it corruption or a recognition of their dignity?

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With 2 children now permitted, Chinese women are thawing embryos

Xavier Symons | 11 February 2017 | Comments

tags: australia, china, egg freezing, ivf, one-child policy

Chinese women are using frozen embryos to conceive a second child.

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Forced organ harvesting may still be occurring – Chinese official

Xavier Symons | 11 February 2017 | Comments

tags: china, organ harvesting, organ trafficking, transplant ethics

A senior government official has admitted that forced organ harvesting from executed prisoners may still be occurring in China.

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No Chinese baby boom after new two-child policy

Michael Cook | 22 October 2016 | Comments

tags: china, one-child policy

Birth rate stays stubbornly low

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