SOME DISABLED PARENTS USE IVF TO CREATE DISABLED CHILDREN
An upcoming article in the journal Fertility and Sterility shows that some disabled parents in the US are using pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) to create...
AUSTRALIA LEGALISES THERAPEUTIC CLONING
After a year of debate, Australia has legalised therapeutic cloning. In a rare conscience vote (meaning that members of Parliament are not bound by party...
NIH SCIENTIST PLEADS GUILTY TO CONFLICT OF INTEREST
A senior US government scientist has pleaded guilty to failing to disclose US$285,000 in payments from the drug company Pfizer. Dr Trey Sunderland of the...
STEM CELLS FROM ABORTED FOETUSES
COULD HELP STROKE VICTIMS
A British company has asked American authorities for permission to trial a cure for stroke using brain cells from an aborted foetus. Although opponents of...
CHURCH-STATE ROW IN FRANCE OVER STEM CELLS
"A polemic without precedent" was how Le Monde described an attack by the Catholic Church's hierarchy on a fund-raiser for muscular dystrophy. For about 20...
IN BRIEF: Echoes of Hwang; New Jersey; Queensland ban
Echoes of Hwang: Another article in Science about embryos has been found to contain fraudulent data. Michael Roberts, of the University of Missouri-Columbia, has acknowledged...