Peking University, China
Dr Alexis Heng Boon Chin is an associate professor of biomedical science at Peking University, China, with a deep interest in bioethics. He earned his BSc degree from Imperial College London, his MSc degree in Clinical Embryology from the National University of Singapore, and his PhD degree from the University of Manchester. To date, he has held various research and academic positions in several countries including China, Singapore, Malaysia, Switzerland, UK and USA.
Singapore is undergoing rapid social and technological change, and its current conservative framework may be neither sustainable nor politically viable in the long term, writes Dr Alexis Heng Boon Chin...
Can the donation of unused frozen eggs help overcome the shortage of donor eggs in Australia, asks Dr Alexis Heng Boon Chin...
Associate professor of biomedical science at Peking University, China, Dr Alexis Heng Boon Chin, discusses the rise in preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy in Malaysia...
Dr Sayyed Mohamed Muhsin and Dr Alexis Heng Boon Chin give an ethical analysis of germline genome editing to prevent genetic diseases based on Islamic legal maxims (Qawaid Fiqhiyyah)...
If tax payers' money is going to be spent on subsidising egg freezing in Singapore it needs to be spent wisely, argues Dr Alexis Heng Boon Chin...
Singapore does not recognise same-sex couples, so when they have children, typically only one partner is the legal parent. Dr Alexis Heng Boon Chin explores how IVG could, in future, allow same-sex couples to have a child with both partners' DNA, and how this could challenge the status quo...
Dr Alexis Heng Boon Chin and Dr Che Anuar Bin Che Mohamad explain the recently issued fatwa in Malaysia, which explicitly bans elective egg freezing for fertility preservation by single Muslim women before marriage...
Recently, the Singapore Government announced that non-medical egg freezing will be permitted from 2023 onwards...
Many countries worldwide implement compulsory pension funds and medical savings schemes that are contributed to by both employees and employers. In some countries, employees are allowed to withdraw from such funds to pay for fertility treatments, such as IVF…
Unlike in the West, many Asian countries adopt conservative and traditionalist policies towards motherhood and female reproduction...
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