BIOEDGE GOES ON HOLIDAYS
The editor of BioEdge will be on holidays for the next three weeks. The next issue will be published on February 20. BRITISH SPECIALIST TARGETED...
THE SHINING LIGHTS OF ALTRUISM
Altruism can be detected with brain scans, claim researchers from Duke University in North Carolina. In an article in Nature Neuroscience, they report that they...
NEW YORK GOVERNOR SEEKS STEM CELL BOND ISSUE
The new governor of New York, Eliot Spitzer, has called for a US$2 billion 10-year bond issue for research and development in the state --...
THE BRAVE NEW WORLD OF NEUROETHICS
The legal and moral quandaries of the burgeoning new field of neuroethics "threaten to proliferate into every part of our lives", according to a feature...
EMBRYO DEFENCE PUBLISHED IN NEW YORK TIMES
The New York Times has published a concise defence of the Bush policy on stem cells by the former executive director of the President's Council...
IS BUSH THE BEST FRIEND OF EMBRYO RESEARCH?
Writing in the libertarian magazine Reason, Ronald Bailey asks whether Federal restrictions have helped, rather than hindered, embryonic stem cell research. Because the Bush Administration...
TOP BRITISH SURGEONS CASH IN ON BREAST ENLARGEMENT
Some of the leading figures in British cosmetic surgery are cashing in on the growing demand for breast enlargements by slashing their prices to tap...
IN BRIEF: survival, kidney sales, genetic privacy
Survival: The first embryo of 1,400 rescued from a flooded New Orleans IVF laboratory has been born. His parents have named him Noah. Two weeks...