Nobel laureate becomes pariah after allegedly racist comments
James Watson's colleagues at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York have scuttled for cover after the Nobel Prize laureate was accused of making racist...
Getting rich is in your genes
Genetics explains the Industrial Revolution?The burgeoning enthusiasm for genetic explanations of everything has emerged in economics. In one of the year's best-sellers, A Farewell to...
Italy’s Terri Schiavo
Italian courts are grappling with their own Terri Schiavo, a 34- year-old woman, Eluana Englaro, who has been in a coma for 15 years after...
NIH chief snubs Bush stem cell policy
Can President Bush's weakening hold on Washington bureaucracy be detected in its bioethics? The head of the National Institutes of Health, Elias Zerhouni, has again...
Too early to offer egg-freezing, say experts
Despite claims by a number of clinics that egg freezing is a viable option for women who want to defer childbearing, the peak IVF body...
Commercial saviour sibling scheme criticised
A company offering to bank frozen embryos in case a sibling might need tissue-matched organs later in life has been denounced by IVF scientists at...
UK babies aborted for trivial defects
More than 100 babies with minor disabilities, such as a cleft palate or club foot, were aborted in just one region of England between 2002...
Fat to become nerves
Accident victims could have nerves restored with the help of stem cells from their own fat. Scientists at the University of Manchester in the UK...