Preventing and treating human disease is a praiseworthy goal. But it must not be allowed to become a reason to turn human beings into designer products.

Any society that wants to survive must care for the weak and vulnerable in their midst.

A look at European statistics on five key biomedical issues: surrogate parenthood, gender transformation, the new eugenics, euthanasia and abortion. 

Dr Calum MacKellar considers the ethics of the editing of human genes in the creation of embryos