Stem cell breakthrough: more efficient, more ethical
Two separate teams in Japan and the US have simultaneously published papers showing that ordinary human skin cells can be reprogrammed to behave like embryonic...
Extra care taken in vetting monkey clones
Nature took no chances in checking the validity of recent paper. The thrill of cloning a rhesus macaque monkey has already faded, even though it...
Sex selection doctor sentenced in India
Bizarre family structures emerge because of shortage of women. The Indian state of Haryana has convicted another doctor of determining the sex of an unborn...
UN group calls for ban on cloned babies
Report from UN thinktank says that reproductive cloning is inevitable. Human reproductive cloning should be banned globally to prevent rogue scientists from creating cloned babies,...
Political brain waves
Magnetic resonance imaging machine can be used to assess political choices, claim neuroscientists. More help from neuroscience for those hard-nosed cigar-smoking backroom boys who run...
Trounson not involved in research misconduct, says his university
California stem cell institute has full confidence in new president The new chief of the world's biggest stem cell project, the US$3 billion California Institute...
Your government orders you not to get fat
Nuffield Council on Bioethics defends "nanny state" to keep citizens healthy. Britons need busybody governments to keep them healthy, says the Nuffield Council on Bioethics,...
Man with “locked-in” syndrome may speak through machine
Electrodes implanted in brain could start conversationScientists are on the brink of translating into words the thoughts of a brain-damaged man who cannot speak. Scientists...