Danish sperm merchant to sail past UK fertility laws
A Danish entrepreneur is studying the possibility of anchoring fertility ships" in international waters to help people evade restrictive laws. Ole Schou, the founder of...
Adult stem cells a good alternative, says Australian scientist
An Australian stem cell researcher has told a government inquiry into therapeutic cloning that his field has advanced so much in the past three years...
Mired in lawsuits, Proposition 71 slows to a crawl
Nearly a year after California voters approved a US$3 billion bond issue to finance embryonic stem cell research by voting 3 to 2 for Proposition...
Doctors force-feeding Gitmo hunger strikers
The lobby group Physicians for Human Rights has criticised the participation of American doctors in force-feeding hunger strikers in Guantanamo Bay. The New York Times...
Have your babies before 35, say UK specialists
Delaying babies defies nature, according to IVF specialists writing in the British Medical Journal. "Women want to 'have it all,' but biology is unchanged; deferring...
German nurse charged with 29 nursing home deaths
In what could be the worst serial killing in Germany since World War II, a 26-year-old male nurse has been charged with killing 29 nursing...
First face transplant approaches
A dozen people with facial disfigurements have queued up to become the first person to receive a face transplant. Five men and seven women are...
Are plumper lips coming from the skin of Chinese prisoners?
Commodification of human life is not just about embryos, as gruesome allegations about Chinese beauty products illustrates. The Guardian (UK) claims that a Chinese cosmetics...
IN BRIEF: India; Susan Torres; parthenotes
India has decided to empower women by making the morning-after pill an over-the-counter drug and reducing its price with government subsidies. Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss...