ARTIFICIAL LIFE COULD BE MONEY-SPINNER
Artificial life is around the corner, says gene pioneer Craig Venter. His project of creating a "minimal bacterial genome" is only weeks or months away...
MIXING HUMAN AND ANIMAL GAMETES MAY BE NECESSARY
The UK's leading medical research group says that creating hybrid embryos from empty animal eggs and human genetic material is "vital" for the fight against...
Disgusting!
America's culture wars appear to be invading the world's most prestigious scientific journal, Nature. The lead editorial in the June 14 issue is a combative...
NEW BOOK ON INDIAN GENDER-CIDE
Penguin India has just released a book by activist Gita Aravamudan on the country's increasingly skewed sex ratio. She says that she was goaded into...
NOVEL CASES IN MEDICAL ETHICS
From Tamil Nadu, in southern India comes news of a 15-year-old whiz kid surgeon. Dhileepan Raj successfully performed a Caesarean section under the watchful eyes...
IN BRIEF: primate cloning; McSurgery; correction
Primate cloning: An American scientist has announced that he has been able to perform therapeutic cloning with a rhesus monkey. If this is confirmed, it...