APOLOGIES
Last week there was no issue of BioEdge. Our apologies. The Editor was felled by the flu. DOLLY'S CLONER BACKS DESIGNER BABIES A book...
BMA REVERTS TO OPPOSING EUTHANASIA
Last year the British Medical Association abandoned a decades-old policy of opposition to assisted suicide and euthanasia in a controversial vote at its annual meeting....
NEUROETHICS KICKS OFF WITH LIE DETECTOR DEBATE
Lie detectors which scan the brain and not trembling hands and racing pulses are a new challenge for bioethics, and especially its newer sub-speciality, neuroethics....
TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT POWER
When do politicians lose the right to medical privacy? For Israelis, this is hardly a theoretical question. When Prime Minister Ariel Sharon collapsed with a...
BRAINSTORMING THE EGG-SOURCING CONUNDRUM
Therapeutic cloning will only succeed if scientists can source all the eggs they need to create cloned embryos. Since egg retrieval is uncomfortable, at best,...
AUSTRALIA WAVERS ON THERAPEUTIC CLONING
Australia could possibly legalise therapeutic cloning, after Federal cabinet was roundly criticised for recommending that a national ban be extended. Health Minister Tony Abbott reportedly...
“ETHICAL” STEM CELLS FOUND?
Researchers at the University of Milan claim to have created embryonic stem cells without embryos, leading to hopes that they can be created "ethically". Their...
SMALL GAIN FOR EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS
Paralysed rats treated with a cocktail of embryonic stem cells, adult stem cells, proteins and drugs have recovered some movement, say researchers at Johns Hopkins...
POLITICS IN THE GENES
With IVF specialists hot in pursuit of genes for dread diseases so that they can filter out defective embryos, the latest issue of Science brings...
US STEM CELL POLITICS ROUND-UP
This (Northern) summer could bring a debate on stem cell research in the US Congress. Senate majority leader Bill Frist says that he plans to...
IN BRIEF: Dignitas, IVF, lies, Hwang back
DIGNITAS: Four Australians have apparently journeyed to Switzerland to die at the Dignitas assisted suicide clinic in Zurich. This news emerged after euthanasia activist Dr...