MIT’S PLUG FOR EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS
While we're still at MIT and Technology Review, take a look at on the magazine's website featuring an MIT professor who is one of the...
ARTIFICIAL SPERM AND EGGS ADVANCING SLOWLY BUT SURELY
A special feature in this week's New Scientist reviews progress towards the creation of eggs and sperm from embryonic stem cells. In the short term,...
UK MAN HELPS WIFE TO DIE AND WALKS FREE
A husband has walked free from a British court after helping his seriously disabled wife to commit suicide. He was given a nine-month suspended jail...
ISRAELI SCANDAL OVER ILLEGAL EXPERIMENTS
Four senior doctors have been arrested in Israel for experimenting illegally upon thousands of elderly patients without their consent over several years. According to Haaretz,...
UK BISHOP TO HEAD FERTILITY AUTHORITY
The Blair government has appointed a controversial retired Anglican bishop as temporary head of its fertility authority. Lord Harries of Pentregarth, formerly Richard Harries, Bishop...
MIT STEM CELL EXPERT SLAMS THERAPEUTIC CLONING
A stem cell scientist from Massachusetts Institute of Technology visiting Australia last week made a vigorous attack upon the science and ethics of therapeutic cloning....
WOMEN WITH DISEASES SHOULD DONATE EGGS, SAYS RESEARCHER
Women with diseases like diabetes and cystic fibrosis should be encouraged to donate their eggs for experiments in therapeutic cloning, according to an Australian scientist....
NORTH KOREAN ENFORCING EUGENICS
In the wake of North Korea's claim to have exploded a nuclear bomb, articles featuring criticism of the cruel and secretive government have again flooded...
CAT CLONING COMPANY SINKS
The world's first cat cloning company, Genetic Savings & Clone, has shut its doors because of low demand. Since the company opened in 2000, it...
OVERCOMING SPERM BANK SHORTAGES
Most British sperm banks have reported shortages ever since the UK government made it possible for IVF children to find out who their biological parents...
THE YOUTUBE STEM CELL WATCH
Everyone expects political ads on television to oversimplify things, but American ads dealing with stem cell research make mere oversimplification look like a PhD dissertation....
CALIFORNIA DREAMING
Patient advocates are dismayed, but the word from the world's best funded stem cell institute is that there will be no cures for at least...