Limit drug company influence, say Harvard students
Will Harvard Medical School be able to keep its good resolutions? Harvard Medical School students want their world-famous institution to disclose and limit the influence...
Were the sound and fury of the hybrid embryo debate pointless?
Therapeutic cloning’s star wanes A few months ago, in the teeth of ferocious opposition, the British parliament passed a law authorising the creation of human-animal...
Ethical and practical pluripotent stem cells even closer now
Only one transcription factor needed Scientists have come even closer to developing pluripotent stem cells without destroying embryos. An article in the journal Cell shows...
German court rules against helping suicides for money
Former justice minister charged clients 8,000 Euros A German court has found that assisted suicide for profit is not legal, thus ending a tidy little...
Britain closer to legal assisted suicide
Court formally denies Debbie Purdy’s request, but indicates that no prosecution likely Britain seems to edging closer towards a "don’t ask, don’t tell" policy on...
Few US IVF clinics follow guidelines
Desperate clients; desperate doctors From their remarks in the media, you might think that IVF doctors are outraged at a colleague who implanted 6 embryos...
What about those deadbeat sperm donor dads?
Where’s OctoDad? Where’s OctoDad, some observers of the mother-of-14-IVF-kids saga are asking. Apparently Nadya Suleman used a single sperm donor for all of her brood,...
Can we, should we, erase bad memories?
Recent advances more a talking point than progressIn the film Eternal Sunshine Of the Spotless Mind, Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet use a specialist medical...
Kidney donors have normal life span
No excessive risk of end-state kidney diseaseAn essential element in discussions of the ethics of kidney donation is whether donors suffer as a result of...
Pope warns of new eugenics movement
Vatican conference on "New Frontiers of Genetics and the Danger of Eugenics" The Pope has warned of the dangers of a new eugenics. Addressing scientists...
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