British IVF clinic makes worst mistake possible, says industry watchdog
Inadequate screening of donated sperm leads to miscarriageA serious error in a British fertility clinic’s screening processes has led to concerns about the safety of...
Oklahoma abortion reporting law “misrepresented”
Privacy issues continue to spark A new law affecting patient privacy has become the centre of political controversy in Oklahoma. As reported last week in...
New suicide drug available next year, says Nitschke
Exit International to sell barbiturate in 2010 A “peaceful pill” for people who want to commit suicide will be made available by mail order in...
Next year, says Geron, embryonic stem cell trials will begin. We hope
Critics jeer onOne of the most convincing advocates of human embryonic stem cell research, quadriplegic actor Christopher Reeves, died without seeing any substantial progress towards...
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...
Scrutinising “progressive” bioethics
New book from MIT Press On the coattails of a progressive US President, a number of “progressive” bioethicists have entered the Obama administration. What this...
California stem cell scientists team up with China
CIRM signs agreement The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) will be collaborating with the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) on stem cell...