WOMEN IN UK CAN DONATE EGGS FOR RESEARCH
Never a dull moment in the UK for bioethicists! In the first of two significant developments, the country's fertility regulator has decided to allow women...
EGG MARKET BOOMING IN US
While compensation for egg donation is hotly debated in the UK, it has become common in the US. According to guidelines from the American Society...
SHADOW OVER ADULT STEM CELL PAPER
An important paper which claimed that a type of adult stem cell was as versatile as embryonic stem cells now appears to be flawed. In...
IS NEW DUTCH GOVERNMENT SHUNNING EUTHANASIA?
A Dutch politician has complained that his country's new government plans to create viable alternatives to abortion and euthanasia. The leader of the Liberal party,...
IVF BABIES MORE LIKELY TO HAVE BIRTH DEFECTS
Canadian research indicates that babies conceived through IVF are more likely to have birth defects, confirming studies in Australia and the US. In the latest...
POSSIBLE TREATMENT FOR DOWN SYNDROME
A possible new use has been discovered for an old epilepsy drug -- giving people with Down Syndrome new capacity for learning. An article in...
NEW JERSEY COURT CONSIDERS NEW ARGUMENT
IN ABORTION DEBATE
The New Jersey Supreme Court is considering a case which could shake up America's tortuous abortion debate. An article in Slate sketches the facts. Rose...
A DECADE OF DOLLY
February 22 marked the tenth anniversary of the cloning of Dolly. Back in 1997, Ian Wilmut and his colleagues at Roslin Institute near Edinburgh announced...
IN BRIEF: prematurity; liposuction; book banned; South Korea
Record for prematurity: A Florida IVF baby born at 21 weeks and 6 days has been released from hospital. She is the first baby known...