US ELECTIONS GIVE MIXED PICTURE ON FUTURE OF EMBRYO CLONING
Opponents of cloning human embryos are licking their wounds after last week's US election. Although the issue was just a straw in the gale which...
ISRAEL’S COUNTDOWN TO DEATH FOR THE TERMINALLY ILL
On December 15, a technology-driven advance directive for dying patients will come into effect in Israel. People will be able to record their wishes on...
BRITISH RESEARCHERS NEED HYBRID EMBRYOS
British scientists have applied to create human-animal hybrids in an effort to clarify a gap in existing legislation. Two teams of researchers say that they...
Nazis’ low tech genetic engineering remembered
For the first time, children raised in a Nazi program to breed blond, blue-eyed Aryans have met together as adults. Children from the Nazis' "Lebensborn",...
NY DOC READY FOR WOMB TRANSPLANT
A New York hospital has given the green light for a womb transplant -- even though the only human transplant a few years ago failed...
GOTHAM CITY’S FLUID IDENTITIES
Maintaining its reputation for cutting-edge social reform, New York City is soon to allow people to alter the sex on their birth certificate without sex-change...
ONE-CHILD POLICY SHOWS ITS AGE IN CHINA
Confusing signals are emerging from China about its draconian one- child policy. The hard-line position was supported by Zhang Wei- qing, minister in charge of...
IN BRIEF: Hwang, Australia, adoption
HWANG: Disgraced South Korean stem cell researcher Hwang Woo-suk is suing Seoul National University to get his job back. He claims that he was unfairly...