BioEdge

Parents who have children via embryo donation or adoption have just as good relationships with them as IVF parents. But more than half of all...

Maverick IVF specialist Lord Robert Winston has unveiled a plan to solve the organ transplant crisis with genetically-engineered pigs. He is trying to trick the...

Government meddling in drug approvals is not an issue only in the US, where foot-dragging over the morning-after pill has landed the Bush Administration in...

ALL SHOOK UP: Researchers at Georgia Tech and Emory University have discovered that gently shaking embryonic stem cells, rather like how an embryo is shaken...

An Australian IVF expert has joined the doyen of British fertility studies in criticising the increasing commercialisation of his industry. According to Professor Robert Norman,...

The British fertility watchdog has approved the creation of human- animal embryos. After having lobbied long and hard for permission, stem cell scientists were relieved....

The tragic case of a botched selective termination has thrown more petrol on to the smouldering abortion debate in Italy. A 38-year-old woman who was...

Russian psychiatrists are falling back into bad habits of the Soviet era by drugging and hospitalising critics of the government -- or even of mental...

A nationwide survey has found that the least religious of all medical specialties in the US is psychiatry. "Something about psychiatry, perhaps its historical ties...

It's time to abandon out-moded notions which restrict parenthood to biological mothers and fathers, argue two Australian researchers in a forthcoming issue of the international...

At an age when most old people are content to potter about their kitchen and make cups of tea, a group of Australian seniors are...

The state of Illinois has passed a law allowing human embryonic stem cell research, but banning human cloning. "Stem cell research has limitless potential to...