BioEdge

 Yet another plastic, proliferating, pluripotent stem cell has been discovered, raising questions about the need for embryonic stem cells as cures for dread diseases. In...

 A profoundly retarded little girl and her loving parents are at the centre of a bioethical controversy this week. In October, doctors at Children's Hospital...

British stem cell scientists are fuming because their government will probably ban experiments with hybrid embryos which combine human and animal genetic material. They have...

 Confirmation that bioethics now has brand recognition comes with the mysterious appearance of several medical luminaries on Da Ali G Show, including the chairman of...

Why should people have to be suffering to deserve voluntary euthanasia, asks a Finnish academic in the latest issue of the journal Bioethics. Jukka Varelius,...

Stem cells: Researchers at the University of Southern California School of Dentistry have found that stem cells from the extracted wisdom teeth of young adults...

 All pregnant American women should be offered screening for Down syndrome in their first trimestre, not just over-35s, according to guidelines from the American College...

A 67-year-old Spanish woman became the world's oldest new mother when she gave birth to twins in Barcelona in December. The babies are said to...

 Stage 1 of a controversy over the fate of a Italian man paralysed by muscular dystrophy has finished. Cutting through legal and medical debate, anaesthetist...

It's hardly mainstream medicine, but advances in stem cell technology and organ transplantation have created opportunities for ghastly exploitation of babies and children by unscrupulous...

A controversial critic of embryonic stem cell research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has cited racism as the reason why he was denied tenure....

The head of the UK's Medical Research Council, Oxford professor , has predicted that opposition to embryonic stem cell research by religious absolutists will evaporate...