The difference a measly 0.1% makes
What does 99.9% human really mean?As the public debate in the UK over hybrid embryos nears its climax in a House of Commons debate next...
New kid on ethics block challenges bioethics
Neuroethics subverts long-accepted views of human nature It is hard to believe that bioethics as a discipline has existed only for about 40 years. It...
Did Albanian gangs sell organs of Serb prisoners?
Sensational allegations in Carla del Ponte’s memoirSerbia's War Crimes Prosecution Office is investigating whether hundreds of Serbian prisoners in the 1998-99 Kosovo war were butchered...
US families from Asian backgrounds selecting sex of children
Will diminish with time, say experts Asian preference for sex selection is spreading to the United States. According to a study in a recent issue...
270,000 deaths in US attributed to medical error
"Costly toll in lives and dollars" Three percent of all Medicare patients have been the victims of medical errors from 2004 to 2006, according to...
Your privacy is valuable to us: we can sell it to the newspapers
More scandal at UCLA Medical Center The UCLA medical worker who sneaked a peek at Britney Spears’ medical records was not a lone ranger. Last...
Are British Alzheimer’s patients being killed with anti-psychotics?
Over-prescription is abuse of human rights, says MP More than 23,000 British Alzheimer’s patients may be dying because they are given anti-psychotic drugs with serious...
Hillary on Oregon’s assisted suicide law
Not sure, but sure sounds like a nice idea Bioethics is not a major issue in this year’s presidential contest. But when candidates are campaigning...
Reprogrammed cells help mice with Parkinson’s
Tumour fears allayed Researchers at MIT have found that "reprogrammed" stem cells can repair the neurons of mice with a model of Parkinson’s disease. In...
First hybrid clones created in UK
It's all legal, say scientistsScientists at Newcastle University have created the first cloned human-animal hybrids in the UK. The news is bound to create an...
Shadow of Hwang over stem cell research
Yamanaka made small mistakes in recent paper Much like the sinister Nazgûl in the Lord of the Rings, the spectre of fraudster Hwang Woo-suk hovers...
Britain prepares for debate on new fertility law
Opponents square off Supporters and opponents of Britain’s revised fertility legislation are dancing in their corners and punching the air before the bell rings for...