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Kass farewells bioethics council with ageing report Ageing is unpleasant, unwanted, and unprofitable. But the US will have to adjust to a large increase in...
A second look at PGD
A technique for detecting abnormalities in embryos may have been giving misleading results, according to papers presented at a Montreal conference of US and Canadian...
Financial links to drug use guidelines
Many of the researchers and doctors who write the rules on prescribing drugs have financial connections to the manufacturers, according to an investigation by the...
South Korea cloner opens stem cell “library” in US and UK
Korean cloning expert Hwang Woo-suk is to open a stem-cell "library" in Seoul with satellite laboratories in San Francisco and Oxford where human embryos can...
Foetal stem cells to be used to cure children
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the first transplant of foetal stem cells to cure a rare and fatal children's disease. It says...
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Do not resuscitate: British stroke patients with "do not resuscitate" orders on their medical notes are seven times more likely to die in the first...