WILL THERAPEUTIC CLONING BE MOTHBALLED BEFORE IT SUCCEEDS?
Ten years ago there was Dolly the Scottish cloned sheep and the race towards therapeutic cloning was on. Ten years later there are Japanese mice...
JUST A COINCIDENCE?
There was excitement, too, on Capitol Hill, in Washington DC, over the stunning new research, which appeared in the journal Nature just before the House...
EMBRYONIC STEM CELL DEBATE ON YOUTUBE
Another coincidence. The news that scientists might not need to destroy embryos to create cures overlapped with the release of a slick YouTube video arguing...
IVF CLINICS OFFERING “RISKY” FERTILITY TREATMENT
A leading British immunologist has warned that many fertility clinics are offering women an unnecessary, potentially dangerous and possibly counterproductive treatment. Ashley Moffett, of the...
AUSTRALIAN ROW OVER STEM CELLS
Another Australian state is on the road to approving therapeutic cloning and embryonic stem cell research. After a heated debate in the media, the lower...
LANCET CUTS TIES WITH ARMS TRADE
After enduring two years of criticism, the international publishing conglomerate which owns the Lancet, Reed Elsevier, has agreed to abandon its involvement in weaponry trade...
CHADOR LEADS TO COSMETIC SURGERY BOOST IN IRAN
Even though cosmetic surgery procedures in the US and Britain are soaring, they are higher still in the Islamic Republic of Iran. According to Reuters,...
SELF-MUTILATION ETHICAL, SAYS WELSH ACADEMIC
While self-mutilation and extreme body modification are frowned upon by most bioethicists, a Welsh academic contends in the journal Bioethics that there can be no...
THERE’S LIFE IN THE OLD DOG YET
Disgraced South Korean stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk has been in Thailand for discussions about setting up an international consortium for human embryonic stem cell...
IN BRIEF: Parkinson’s; assisted suicide; cosmetic surgery; apology
PARKINSON'S: Monkeys with Parkinson's symptoms have been helped by injections of stem cells from human foetuses, researchers at the Harvard Institutes of Medicine in Boston...