Two-track research needed, say stem cell scientists
Embryo research is still essential for progress The stunning advance last month which may make human embryonic stem cells (ESCs) unnecessary for cures for dread...
Thank you for waiting; your cures have been placed in a queue…
At least a decade away, says Ian Wilmut To dampen expectations by a public hunger for cures, scientists have been falling over each other to...
Further reprogramming progress
Yamanaka gets rid of cancer gene In a matter of weeks, the Japanese researcher who discovered how to reprogram cells, Shinya Yamanaka, has published yet...
Are embryos persons? Colorado voters to decide
Objections from bioethicists about legal rights for the unborn Colorado voters could decide next year that an embryo is a human person from the moment...
East German doctors spied for regime
One in 20 doctors informed on colleagues and patients German doctors have had two encounters with totalitarianism in the 20th century -- and emerged with...
Israel to have new organ trafficking law
Israel regulates organ donation and bans trafficking Israeli legislators think that they have struck a balance between encouraging organ donation and discouraging organ trafficking with...
Teen Jehovah’s Witness refuses transfusion and dies
Bioethicists ask if he were mature enough for decision A 14-year-old Jehovah's Witness in Seattle has died after refusing a blood transfusion. Dennis Lindberg was...
Young chimps beat college students
Apes have photographic memories Young chimpanzees are smarter in some respects than university students, according to a Japanese study in the journal Current Biology. They...
Warnock offers advice in Nature
With the British Parliament deliberating the further liberalisation of its fertility laws to allow hybrid human-animal embryos, the leading journal Nature has sought guidance from...
Sperm donor’s surprise at child support
London man must support child from failed lesbian relationship A London man has been forced to pay child support for two children he fathered for...