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Japan approves human cloning for research
The Japanese Government's top science council has approved limited cloning of human embryos for scientific research. The clones cannot be used for treating human patients....
Stem cells become US election issue
Politics continues to invade the American stem cell debate. Ron Reagan Jr, the son of the late president who has become a Republican legend, is...
Trounson wants to create artificial eggs and sperm
Controversial human embryonic stem cell expert Alan Trounson, of Monash University in Melbourne, is looking at the possibility of ending infertility by creating eggs and...
Sydney stem cell commercialisation seminar promises answers
The New South Wales Stem Cell Network is to hold a public seminar on the commercialisation of stem cell research. Professor Robert Jansen, who recently...
Second thoughts on abortion in UK and Australia
Abortion is back on the government's agenda in the UK. The London Times has reported that Prime Minister Tony Blair has backed a rethink of...
Rich countries looking after number one in public health
The preoccupation of rich countries with threats to their own health is crippling efforts to care for easy-to-cure diseases in poor countries, says a tropical...
ODD SPOT: IVF becomes reality TV gimmick
In what its critics have termed the "sickest ever reality show", a British production company is planning a sperm race in which a human egg...
IN BRIEF: Chinese stem cells ~ HFEA reorganisation
A doctor in Beijing has treated hundreds of patients with spinal damage with mucosal cells from an aborted foetus's nose in a procedure whose safety...