HOPE FADING FOR QUICK EMBRYONIC CURES,
The website of the shows what most voters, and not just in Missouri, expect from embryonic stem cell (ESC) research. The Coalition is battling for...
SINGAPORE RACES FOR STEM CELL SUPREMACY
Singapore is jockeying for a position as a world leader in stem cell research. Researchers disgruntled with meagre funding or restrictive regulation in their home...
STEM CELL SCIENTISTS AND THE LAW
What should stem cell scientists do when their moral views clash with society's? First, set up an eminent persons committee and call for consultation and...
POLLS SEND CONFLICTING MESSAGES TO AUSTRALIAN POLITICIANS
Australian politicians are gearing up for a conscience vote on therapeutic cloning. Health minister Tony Abbott is doing his best to demonise it by raising...
BROWNBACK SETS SIGHTS ON OREGON’S ASSISTED SUICIDE
Conservative US Senator Sam Brownback has introduced a bill which would bar doctors from prescribing federally controlled drugs to be used in assisted suicide. This...
TEEN WINS BATTLE TO TREAT HIS CANCER
A 16-year-old cancer patient in Virginia has reached an agreement with a court about how to treat his Hodgkin's disease. Abraham Cherrix and his parents...
IN BRIEF: lessons, Hwang, New Orleans
Lessons: Investigators into the botched UK drug trial which left six men desperately ill have released an in-depth report. The drug, TGN1412, a monoclonal antibody,...