FURORE OVER MASSACHUSETTS STEM CELL LAW
Massachusetts voters must have thought that their politicians' bunfight over human embryonic stem cells was past history. Last year, overriding Governor Mitt Romney's veto, the...
ANOTHER REPORT THROWN INTO AUSTRALIAN STEM CELL DEBATE
A report to the Australian Prime Minister and his Cabinet could undercut the support of some parliamentarians for the legalisation of therapeutic cloning. The engine...
“SUICIDE VIRUS” SPREADS AMONGST DUTCH HIGH SCHOOLERS
Dutch authorities are alarmed by the discovery that a group of high school girls had egged each other on to commit suicide with macabre emails...
MP CENSORED OVER EUTHANASIA
Euthanasia is back in the Australian headlines again. This time a maverick parliamentarian in South Australia has used parliamentary privilege to deliver a speech detailing...
ETHICAL STEM CELL CLAIMS BUCKETED
A small US biotech's claim in the journal Nature that it had found a way to obtain "ethical" embryonic stem cells is looking more and...
“COWBOY” COSMETIC SURGEONS OPERATE ON TEENS
Teenagers are to be discouraged from getting cosmetic surgery in New South Wales, after Premier Morris Iemma discovered that a recent contestant on Australia's version...
INTELLIGENT DESIGN AT WORK
With perhaps 100 million species of living organisms on Planet Earth, the tree of life might seem full to bursting. But not to some scientists....
IN BRIEF: OBESITY; KOREA; TONY BLAIR; SURROGACY
OBESITY AND IVF: Severely obese women should be denied access to free fertility treatment, the British Fertility Society said recently. Women with a body mass...