CHIMPS COULD GET HUMAN RIGHTS IN AUSTRIA
An Austrian court is studying whether a 26-year-old chimpanzee should be given human rights and treated as an asylum-seeker from Sierra Leone. Hiasl, a lively...
STEM CELLS BACK IN US SENATE
Once again, the US Senate will be debating embryonic stem cell research. It will consider two bills this week: one which is nearly the same...
Will IVF reverse falling birth rates?
With birth rates in Europe sinking to unprecedented lows, one country seems to have bucked the trend. At the moment Denmark has a birth rate...
CHINA REVISES ORGAN DONATION LAW
In response to international pressure, China has revised its regulations for organ transplants. The State Council, or Cabinet, has banned the sale of human organs...
BRITISH PRESSURE TO ALLOW EMBRYO HYBRIDS
Pressure is growing on the British government to permit the creation of human-animal hybrid embryos for stem cell research. After a recent public consultation, it...
IS GOD ALL IN THE BRAIN, ASK NEUROSCIENTISTS
Last week BioEdge's lead story featured research which points to the brain as the source of ethics. An even more daring theory is that the...
HEART VALVE CELLS GROWN FROM ADULT STEM CELLS
Bone marrow stem cells have been used to create heart valve cells, raising hopes that an entire heart could be grown from stem cells within...
IN BRIEF: mercy killing; bad news; confidentiality
Australian mercy killing: Parents who killed their 28-year-old severely disabled son have been placed on a five-year good behaviour bond after pleading guilty. Their child,...