Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.

It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.

In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of one.

The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.

Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.

There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies.

I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites.