The Melbourne Newsroom

What issues of privacy arise from a person’s genome being full described? What moral issues are at stake in pre-natal diagnosis of potentiality for serious illness in the foetus? Why do indigenous peoples reject genetic testing?  Professor Loane Skene, Professor of Law in the Faculty of Law and an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Medicine Dentistry and Health Sciences, discusses.

Recently, The Age reported in ‘DNA first gives hope on genetic diseases’ (see here)that research by Newcastle University in the UK had shown that embryos created with two mothers may offer a breakthrough that could eradicate a host of hereditary diseases.

Last week, New York became the first state in America to allow scientists to pay women for donating their eggs for use in stem cell research, triggering further ethical debate.