The sequencing of the entire human genome has opened up unprecedented possibilities for
healthcare, but also ethical and social dilemmas about how these can be achieved …

BACKGROUND Although sexual activity has, until very recently, been essential to
reproduction, this did not preclude the non-reproductive importance of sexual relationships …

This paper aims to argue for the thesis that it is not a priori morally justified that the first
phase of space colonisation is based on sexual reproduction. We ground this position on the …

ABSTRACT LGBTQ activists have a crucial role in fighting sexuality-based discrimination.
However, homonormativity can lead activists to adhere to hegemonic heteronormativity, thus …

In this paper we look at the implications of an emerging technology for the case in favor of, or
against, postmenopausal motherhood. Technologies such as in vitro derived gametes …

Systems biology is the rapidly growing and heavily funded successor science to genomics.
Its mission is to integrate extensive bodies of molecular data into a detailed mathematical …

There may be several ways to interpret this question. I shall construe it as asking about the
justification of procreation, and in particular, whether there are good reasons, moral or …

Human reproductive cloning aims to produce duplicates, ie, people who are phenotypically
and genetically identical to those already in existence. This might appear to actually threaten …

What is the normative status of the current system of licensing parents, according to which
adoptive parents, and adoptive parents alone, are subject to parentallicensing …

Drawing upon qualitative interviews with monozygotic (identical) twins sharing 100% of their
genes, and with dizygotic (fraternal) twins and singletons as control groups, this paper …