Long life is our desire, eternal youth our supposed right, and the myth of the body without origin or limits our new religion. That might be why governments are so widely seen to have a positive duty to promote stem cell research and other forms of medical progress. Biotechnology industries flourish, with state sanction and support, because they add extra value to the body, the object of supreme worth to us. (Daily Times)

While doctors have been freezing sperm for about 50 years, egg freezing is still considered experimental by some and reserved mostly for young cancer patients facing fertility-threatening chemotherapy. (MSNBC)

Innocent people should have their profiles deleted from the National DNA Database, according to a government-funded inquiry. (Sky News)

Assisted suicide is unnecessary because effective palliative care is available to ease pain and distress associated with terminal and chronic illness. Evidence shows that the majority of pain and other symptoms experienced by the terminally ill can be relieved through specialists providing expert palliative care. (Scotsman)

There is a raging debate in Singapore today: Should the government legalize the organ trade? Should Singapore endorse transplant tourism? The debate began last month when two young Indonesians were jailed for trying to sell their kidneys to a wealthy businessman in Singapore. The Human Organ Transplant Act of Singapore prohibits the supply of any organ or blood for monetary transaction. (UPI Asia)