BioEdge

After a year of debate, Australia has legalised therapeutic cloning. In a rare conscience vote (meaning that members of Parliament are not bound by party...

A senior US government scientist has pleaded guilty to failing to disclose US$285,000 in payments from the drug company Pfizer. Dr Trey Sunderland of the...

A British company has asked American authorities for permission to trial a cure for stroke using brain cells from an aborted foetus. Although opponents of...

"A polemic without precedent" was how Le Monde described an attack by the Catholic Church's hierarchy on a fund-raiser for muscular dystrophy. For about 20...

Echoes of Hwang: Another article in Science about embryos has been found to contain fraudulent data. Michael Roberts, of the University of Missouri-Columbia, has acknowledged...

 Another IVF health hazard unknown to patients but widely discussed amongst fertility experts has been dragged from the shadows. According to British specialists, the powerful...

 After eating humble pie over the publication of fraudulent research by disgraced South Korean stem cell researcher Hwang Woo-suk, the journal Science has made some...

 The Australian Parliament is creeping towards closure on the contentious issue of therapeutic cloning. A private member's bill authorising it passed the Senate last month,...

More than a third of doctors who sit on review boards overseeing the integrity of clinical trials do not bother to disclose a financial stake...

Animal rights activists are aghast at the news that their intellectual godfather, Australian philosopher Peter Singer, is prepared to support animal experimentation in some cases....

Governments should get out of the stem cell research business, argues the bioethics expert at the Cato Institute, an American libertarian think tank. Writing in...

One of the most potent political arguments for legalising stem cell research is the threat of job losses. In Australia's recent debate over therapeutic cloning,...