STATE BY STATE STEM-CELL ROUND-UP
With November elections around the corner, a number of races in the US could be decided by voters' views on human embryonic stem cell research....
BRITISH WOMEN STRUCK BY “BIO-PANIC”
More and more single British women and lesbians are embarking upon motherhood without a father, according to the latest IVF statistics. Since 2000, the number...
EUTHANASIA BY STEALTH EMERGES IN UK
The long campaign against euthanasia in the UK is over, writes Dr James Le Fanu, a columnist for the London Telegraph. Even though 50 British...
“FRANKENBUNNIES” ON THE WAY IN UK
Scientists call them early stage hybrid embryos; the media calls them "Frankenbunnies". Whatever the name, they're controversial: the nucleus of a human cell inserted into...
ISRAELI IVF FAILS TO RAISE BIRTH RATE
The conflict between Jews and Arabs in the state of Israel has many battlegrounds -- and one of them is the IVF clinic. According to...
SCIENTISTS TOO TOUCHY, SAYS EDITOR
Scientists are too ready to jump to the defence of wayward colleagues and to accept a lack of transparency in public debate, according to the...
POPE ON STEM CELLS
In the middle of the controversy over his ruminations on Islam, Pope Benedict XVI took time out to deliver a stern message about the ethics...
IN BRIEF: Murdoch on stem cells; India; animal rights
Gloom from Murdoch camp: Australian breast cancer ambassador Sarah Murdoch, wife of Lachlan and daughter-in-law of Rupert, is backing adult stem cell research. She told...
PVS PATIENTS COULD BE USEFUL FOR EXPERIMENTS
What should be done with patients deemed to be in a "permanent vegetative state"? A discussion in the current Journal of Medical Ethics shows that...
GENES NO PREDICTOR OF ADULT HEALTH AND LONGEVITY
Although IVF clinics are beginning to screen embryos so that children will not carry genes for diseases which appear late in life, their clients could...
SEX SELECTION MORE POPULAR IN US
A survey of American IVF clinics has found that almost half of them offer sex selection. Overall, sex selection of embryos accounted for 9% of...
CHINESE PRISONERS STILL PROVIDING ORGANS
Chinese prisoners are still a source of organs for foreigners with bundles of cash, according to this dramatic BBC TV report. Reporter Rupert Wingfield-Hayes used...