Mighty mice ready for Tour de France
Encouraging news for transhumanists who want to extend human lifespans to Methuselah levels: scientists at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, have genetically engineered...
A peep into the future of science
Sir Isaac Newton once marvelled at "the great ocean of truth [which] lay all undiscovered before me", but modern scientists will soon turn the ocean...
Living in ignorance of trial results
Thousands of patients who took place in clinical trials may never learn whether the drugs or devices were faulty, the New York Times says. Although...
Head and shoulders above other genome sequences
Just a bit of flaky news for genetics buffs: Proctor & Gamble has sequenced the complete genome for a fungus that causes dandruff. In an...
Lung patients denied intensive care in UK
Patients with chronic lung disease are being denied intensive care treatment because doctors are too pessimistic about their chances, research suggests.A British Medical Journal study...
Thou shalt not bear false witness
Most medical ethics issues are brain teasers, but occasionally they are just no brainers. Take this case brought before the UK's medical registration board, the...
British DNA databank growing
Britons are beginning to worry about the size of their expanding national DNA database. More than 6% of the population, or about 4 million people,...
No halt to Asian sex imbalance
The problem of sex imbalance in Asia continues to make the news. At the Fourth Asia Pacific Conference on Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights,...
Cloned horses off to slow start
While human reproductive cloning is unlikely to be endorsed by any scientific body or government in the near future, cloning horses is also meeting strong...
Globalised bioethics
Like many other industries in India, IVF clinics are going global. Pulse, a women's hospital in Ahmedabad, has forged agreements with a hospital in Ghana...
Doctors to make millions from Australian IVF clinic sale
Although IVF is said to be a US$3 billion industry in the United States, it is seldom reported in the financial press. However, the sale...
My brain made me do it
The "neuro-mitigation of blame" should be regarded with deep suspicion, says a British doctor. Professor Raymond Tallis says that recent developments in neuroscience appear to...