The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has published a briefing note outlining the factors that can contribute to disagreements between parents and healthcare staff about the care and treatment of critically ill babies and young children. It concludes that the Government and NHS leaders could do more to foster good, collaborative relationships between parents and healthcare […]

Yesterday in an article in Nature, a group of scientists and ethicists from seven countries called for a global moratorium on all clinical uses of human germline editing. Last year, the Nuffield Council on Bioethics published a report on the social and ethical issues raised by the use of genome editing technologies in human reproduction. […]