VEGETATIVE PATIENTS MAY HAVE AWARENESS
Severely brain-damaged and apparently unresponsive patients may be conscious, British researchers have discovered. In a startling study published in the journal Science, brain imaging techniques...
STEM CELL COMPANY HAMMERED FOR MISRESPRESENTATION
A company accused of misleading the media and the public with claims of creating "ethical" embryonic stem cells was hammered by politicians, the media and...
THE LAST FRONTIER IN PRISON REFORM?
A campaigner for prisoners' welfare in the UK has called for voluntary euthanasia for prisoners. Mark Leech, a former prisoner and the editor of the...
ARE WOMB TRANSPLANTS AROUND THE CORNER?
A British doctor has claimed that his team is only two years away from being able to transplant a womb so that women who lack...
FREEZE EGGS FOR POST-CAREER MOTHERHOOD, SAYS FERTILITY EXPERT
A fertility expert in the UK has urged career women to freeze their eggs if they want to have children later in life. Dr Gillian...
ANOTHER SOURCE OF ETHICAL STEM CELLS
Another promising method of producing embryonic stem cells without destroying embryos is being studied at Michigan State University. In the Proceedings of the National Academy...
STEM CELLS MAY BE USEFUL IN DRUG TESTING
Human embryonic stem cells could be ideal for drug testing, say Israeli scientists. Karl Skorecki and Maty Tzukerman, of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, have...
DISCARDING IVF EMBRYOS
We're not sure whether supporters or opponents of IVF and stem cell research will find this brief video useful. Perhaps both. IN BRIEF: Israel;...