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.

The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics.

An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems.

Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments.

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

Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument.