BioEdge

A man who received a "pacemaker for the brain" has partially recovered from a minimally conscious state. After six years of almost complete inability to...

The British Medical Association will campaign for the introduction of an opt-out system for organ donation in Scotland. George Foulkes, a Labour member of both...

Now that cloning has been legalised in Australia, its largest state is offering a A$500,000 prize to the first scientist to succeed in cloning human...

A Japanese team has successfully produced the world's first fourth- generation cloned large mammal -- a piglet. This suggests that a large mammal can be...

 Learning how to cure diseases also means learning how to spread them, warns an expert in biological terror and crime in the San Francisco Chronicle....

 Federal legislation is not the only barrier to the development of embryonic stem cell research in the United States -- there are also patents held...

 The fertility industry is usually treated as a monolithic industry pushing basically the same techniques and the same product, with some adventurous clinicians specialising in...

Should families own genetic information? Should patients pass on potentially important information to relatives? Should doctors withhold genetic information which could be useful in giving...

A lucrative product in reproductive medicine is embryo screening, especially for women over 35. A single cell is removed from an embryo and checked for...

Switzerland has acquired a reputation for "suicide tourism", as it allows foreigners to take advantage of its liberal laws on assisted suicide. Every year about...

The permutations of family relationships created by IVF seem endless. The latest twist comes with a Montreal woman's decision to freeze 21 of her eggs...

 American patients want their doctor to shake their hand as a sign of respect and trust. According to a survey in the Archives of Internal...