Funding deserts embryonic stem cells
Massachusetts company ready to fold The world’s best-known company dealing in embryonic stem cells may have to close its doors. Advanced Cell Technology is a...
No miracle cures in the near future, if at all
Therapeutic cloning on the skids ACT’s plight appears to confirm that therapeutic cloning is on the skids. Over the past eight years the US and...
Mea culpas and they-a culpas
Therapeutic cloning on the skids Here’s an interesting idea about the phenomenon of apologising for the sins of past sins, from bioethicist Alice Dreger, of...
Medical care for centenarians
1.1 million by 2050 With the US facing the prospect of having 1.1 million people over 100 years old by the year 2050, how much...