Minister warns of inbreeding amongst British Pakistanis
3% of all births, but one-third of all birth defectsGenetics has become the latest battleground in British multiculturalism. A government minister has called for a...
Kidney scandal rocks India
As many as 500 kidneys sold or extorted Pathetic stories of men who sell their kidneys to support their families are hardly new in India....
Psychiatric patients used as suicide bombers
al-Qaeda recruits mentally impaired women As the notorious experiments in concentration camps by Nazi doctors showed, doctors who ignore informed consent can be responsible for...
Reality check for California stem cell initiative
Researchers hose down early optimism How long will it be before California’s US$3 billion stem cell initiative produces cures for dread diseases? Five years? Ten...
Human dignity “shattered”, says Pope
New biotechnologies treat people as things In his latest comments on the dark side of scientific progress, Pope Benedict XVI has said that embryonic stem...
More progress with reprogrammed cells
Yamanaka's latest research allays fears of tumours More progress on the reprogrammed stem cell front. The Japanese scientist who discovered last year how to create...