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This is the 150th issue of BioEdge. Since 2001, we have grown from a handful of subscribers in Australia to many hundreds around the world,...
Groningen protocol” for euthanasing infants published in NEJM
The Dutch doctors at the centre of an international controversy about euthanasing infants with extremely poor quality of life have used the New England Journal...
European Parliament slams UK for ignoring egg trafficking
The European Parliament has singled out Britain in a stinging condemnation of a growing trade in human eggs. It has also called for an explanation...
Gullible Russians exploited by stem cell hucksters
Even though no stem cell treatment -- adult or embryonic -- has been approved for clinical use in the US or Europe, Russians are flocking...
Indian tsunami survivors seek sterilisation reversals and IVF
An unexpected twist to the tragedy of tsunami survivors in Tamil Nadu is men and women asking for their sterilisations to be reversed. The state...
Pig stem cells could replace human organs
Another solution for the growing lists of patients needing organ transplants is embryonic stem cells from pigs, Israeli scientists claim. Previous experiments with pig stem...
Women criticise California stem cell institute
As California's Institute for Regenerative Medicine, created after a state referendum last year, gears up for therapeutic cloning, questions are being asked about where it...
Oregon assisted suicide numbers fall
The number of assisted suicides in the American state of Oregon fell to 37 in 2004 from the peak year of 2003, when 42 terminally...
ODD SPOT: you won’t die laughing
Some readers have commented that when they finish their weekly fix of BioEdge they feel elated by the service but depressed by its contents. Our...
BRIEFS: stem cells, IVF; Terri; abortion
Embryonic stem cells: A US company has developed a process for cultivating ESCs which will make it possible to grow them without feeder cells and...