Korean stem cell fraud given suspended sentence
Crowd cheers, “We trust Dr Hwang! Cheer up, Dr Hwang!” Disgraced South Korean stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk has escaped jail after being convicted of...
Hwang’s therapeutic cloning may be outmoded
iPS cell progress may have made it irrelevant So where is human embryonic stem cell research now, 4 years after Hwang Woo-suk was exposed as...
Lid kept on UK Down syndrome kids with prenatal testing
New BMJ study A study in the BMJ has confirmed that more effective prenatal screening has contained the growth in the number of Down syndrome...
Abolish dead donor rule for executions and euthanasia, say bioethicists
Even more radical proposal Abolishing the dead donor rule -- that vital organs should only be taken from dead patients --is one of the radical...
Israeli Knesset extends moratorium on human cloning
Government seeks another 5 years, gets 7 The Israeli Knesset has once again declined to ban human reproductive cloning. Instead it has extended a moratorium...
Tasmanian parliamentary report rejects euthanasia
Report available on internet Voluntary euthanasia will probably be rejected once again in the Australian state of Tasmania. In May the leader of the Green...