Better off dead than a burden, says Warnock
Britain's best-known bioethicist, Baroness Warnock, has suggested that the elderly should request euthanasia rather than linger on as a burden on their families. In an...
US researchers clone monkeys
Using a technique developed by the South Korean team which cloned the first human embryos, University of Pittsburgh scientists have cloned macaque monkeys. Although the...
Lisbon doctor gives hope to spinal cord victims
A British woman paralysed in a riding accident has regained some movement after stem cells from her nose were transplanted into her spine. The operation...
Chinese achieve “miracle cures” with aborted foetuses
Americans suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease are travelling to Beijing to seek treatment with nasal stem cells from aborted foetuses. Dr Huang Hongyun injects cells...
Nobel laureate criticised for spruiking health supplements
One of the 1998 winners of the Nobel Prize for Medicine has been criticised for publishing a paper in a leading scientific journal without disclosing...
Israeli Knesset studying euthanasia bill
A bill authorising "passive euthanasia" is being studied by the Israeli Knesset. Neurologist Avraham Steinberg, who headed the interdisciplinary committee which studied the proposal, hopes...
Scrap fertility agency, says British IVF expert
Outspoken fertility expert Lord Robert Winston has called for the UK's fertility regulator to be scrapped. Upset by interference from the Human Embryology and Fertilisation...
Another alternative to embryonic stem cells?
Stem cells found in hair follicles could provide an ethically non-controversial alternative to embryonic stem cells, say researchers. Writing in the journal Developmental Dynamics, researchers...
Listen to the voice of religion, says Nature
The leading journal Nature has exhorted scientists to be aware that they are trespassing on traditional turf of religion when they complain that religion is...
“Bulletproof” Proposition 71 surprises voters
After endorsing a US$3 billion bond issue for stem cell research, California is beginning to realise that the institute coordinating the research will have no...
IN BRIEF: bioethics; Russia; florida; New Zealand
Ethics: The American Society for Bioethics is sponsoring a conference on "the ethics of bioethics" next April in Albany. Organisers say that the conference will...