Lee Silver is a professor of microbiology and public affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in Princeton, N.J. His books include Challenging Nature: The Clash of Science and Spirituality at the New Frontiers of Life and Remaking Eden: How Genetic Engineering and Cloning Will Transform the American Family, which deals with […]

Bonnie Steinbock is a philosophy professor at the University of Albany, State University of New York, a faculty member of the Alden March Bioethics Institute at Albany Medical College, a fellow of the Hastings Center and a member of the Ethics Committee of the American Society for Reproduction and Medicine. She specializes in reproduction and genetics. […]

Nancy Neveloff Dubler is a bioethics expert who has written and spoken widely on health care for vulnerable populations, end-of-life care, adolescent health and AIDS. She is a professor emerita of family and social medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York, and an affiliate of the school’s bioethics education program.

Daniel Wikler is a professor of population ethics at the Harvard School of Public Health at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. His interests include ethical dimensions of health resource allocation, the ethics of experimentation with human subjects and ethical dilemmas of global public health practice. A philosopher by training, Wikler served as the first staff ethicist […]

Read an article on Islamic bioethics from 2001 in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, by A. Daar and A. Khitamy of Sultan Qaboos University in Oman.

Read an introduction to genetic engineering for nonscientists, posted by DNAPatent.com.

Read about stem cell research – science, news and policy – on the National Institutes of Health web site.

Read about The Bloodlines Project, Bloodlines: Technology Hits Home, which includes a one-hour PBS documentary, an interactive web site, outreach and a guide about how new life-sciences technologies are raising ethical, legal and social dilemmas as cutting-edge science intersects with the law. What does it mean to be a parent? To be human? To have rights? […]

Genome News Network posts articles on a range of bioethics topics; links to landmark documents, religious views and the U.S. government’s views on various issues; and a timeline on genetics and genomics. The Genome News Network is an educational web site affiliated with and editorially independent from the J. Craig Venter Institute.