PVS PATIENTS COULD BE USEFUL FOR EXPERIMENTS
What should be done with patients deemed to be in a "permanent vegetative state"? A discussion in the current Journal of Medical Ethics shows that...
GENES NO PREDICTOR OF ADULT HEALTH AND LONGEVITY
Although IVF clinics are beginning to screen embryos so that children will not carry genes for diseases which appear late in life, their clients could...
SEX SELECTION MORE POPULAR IN US
A survey of American IVF clinics has found that almost half of them offer sex selection. Overall, sex selection of embryos accounted for 9% of...
CHINESE PRISONERS STILL PROVIDING ORGANS
Chinese prisoners are still a source of organs for foreigners with bundles of cash, according to this dramatic BBC TV report. Reporter Rupert Wingfield-Hayes used...
HAS EMBRYONIC STEM CELL SCIENCE BEEN OVERSOLD?
In the wake of overblown claims by the company Advanced Cell Technology that it had found an ethical way of deriving embryonic stem cells, journalists...
IS COLLATERAL DAMAGE IN IRAQ THE MORAL EQUIVALENT OF KILLING EMBRYOS?
Two prominent supporters of embryonic stem research have hit upon the same argument for demolishing US President George Bush's refusal to fund it. Writing on...
BILLIONS AT RISK WITHOUT THERAPEUTIC CLONING, SAYS VICTORIAN PREMIER
Unless Australia legalises therapeutic cloning, it will lose billions of dollars and fall behind in science, according to Victorian Premier Steve Bracks. In an interview...
WHAT’S WRONG WITH CLONING ANYWAY?
Although scientists regularly swear that reproductive cloning is unethical because it is unsafe, almost none of them grasp the nettle of whether it would be...
IN BRIEF: back again; scientists oppose Bush; Blair
BACK AGAIN: Advanced Cell Technology, the US company which was pilloried recently for misrepresenting its discovery that stem cell lines can be created from 8-cell...