Hillary to boost embryonic stem cell research
US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has vowed to lift restrictions on embryonic stem research should she be elected. This was the first of a number...
Marketing science better
Science has a serious marketing problem, Google co-founder earlier this year. He even suggested that the solution was tying tenure and grants to the media...
British scientists cheer government climb-down on hybrids
While we're on the topic of flag-waving, British stem cell scientists are waving one, but it's not the white kerchief of surrender, but the Union...
Fairness is in your genes, not your morals
More news from the everything-is-genetic camp. According to an article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Bjorn Wallace, of the Stockholm School...
Amnesty condemns doctors who execute
Amnesty International is keeping its hand in bioethical debates. Not long after endorsing abortion as a woman's right in certain cases, it has condemned doctors...
Organ donation a Christian duty, says CofE
The Church of England in the UK has declared that organ donation is a Christian duty. This supports the government's desire to establish a presumed...
Disbursing stem cell boodle
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine will soon have US$3 billion to spend -- but it is already having trouble handing out the loot. One...
Government too lax on conscientious objectors, complains BMA
The British Medical Association and the UK body which disciplines doctors have clashed over conscientious objection. The General Medical Council is drafting new guidelines on...