A “win-win” for ethics and science in latest stem cell advance
Harvard researcher morphs one cell into another Harvard scientists have discovered that they can transform one cell directly into another without an intermediate stage as...
Vatican newspaper questions brain-death criteria
Unlikely to signal change in Catholic teaching In 1968, a landmark report from Harvard Medical School set down criteria for determining when a person was...
Bristol Palin’s walk-on role in American history
What is all the fuss about? Seventeen-year-old Bristol Palin must be the best-known unmarried teenager mother in the world. The media frenzy over her five-month-old...
UK euthanasia lobby fails in trademark bid
"Dishonest", say opponents Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will really help me. That was the thought which inspired the British Voluntary...
Prepare for reproductive cloning now, say bioethicists
Silence on cloning front may not mean inactivity Little has been heard of late from the gaggle of eccentric experts ready to clone children for...
Scientists finally discover what “pluripotent” means
California researcher sets out standards Although it may surprise laymen, stem cell scientists have not known how to confirm whether a cell was pluripotent or...
Mum-to-be sues British government after using donor eggs
"This baby is genetically another woman's" A British woman is suing the Health Department for a six-year delay in funding her IVF treatment. Greta Mason,...
Dubai restricts IVF to prevent technical adultery
Government retains a monopoly to ensure moral treatment IVF is a contentious technology in some Muslim countries. In Dubai, there are complaints from doctors that...