Israel to have new organ trafficking law
Israel regulates organ donation and bans trafficking Israeli legislators think that they have struck a balance between encouraging organ donation and discouraging organ trafficking with...
Teen Jehovah’s Witness refuses transfusion and dies
Bioethicists ask if he were mature enough for decision A 14-year-old Jehovah's Witness in Seattle has died after refusing a blood transfusion. Dennis Lindberg was...
Young chimps beat college students
Apes have photographic memories Young chimpanzees are smarter in some respects than university students, according to a Japanese study in the journal Current Biology. They...
Warnock offers advice in Nature
With the British Parliament deliberating the further liberalisation of its fertility laws to allow hybrid human-animal embryos, the leading journal Nature has sought guidance from...
Sperm donor’s surprise at child support
London man must support child from failed lesbian relationship A London man has been forced to pay child support for two children he fathered for...
The stem cell gusher
With the political and ethical logjam broken, opportunities open up. Stem cell scientists have hit a gusher, says the New York Times, with proof by...
Kass calls for ban on cloning after reprogramming advance
The former head of the President's Council on Bioethics, Dr Leon Kass, says that the validation of reprogramming is an opportunity to pass long-delayed legislation...
More problems in governance of California’s stem cell institute
The chairman of the CIRM accused of supporting conflict of interest California's stem cell institute, the best-funded in the world, has not had an easy...
Gene therapy works with Parkinson’s
The first solid evidence that gene therapy can work in the brain. Encouraging news on the gene therapy front: researchers have reported that gene therapy...
German move to open assisted suicide agency
German allies of Dignitas want to test the law. The German branch of the Swiss assisted suicide group Dignitas is seeking to help someone die...
Do neuroscientists manage teen tantrums better?
The short answer is No, despite their knowledge of the brain. Because they appreciate that the neural circuits that control a teenager's ability to focus...
Brain surgery 101: left and right hemispheres
Doctors operated on the wrong side of the heads of three patients in a US teaching hospital A Rhode Island hospital has been fined and...