HAS EMBRYONIC STEM CELL SCIENCE BEEN OVERSOLD?
In the wake of overblown claims by the company Advanced Cell Technology that it had found an ethical way of deriving embryonic stem cells, journalists...
IS COLLATERAL DAMAGE IN IRAQ THE MORAL EQUIVALENT OF KILLING EMBRYOS?
Two prominent supporters of embryonic stem research have hit upon the same argument for demolishing US President George Bush's refusal to fund it. Writing on...
BILLIONS AT RISK WITHOUT THERAPEUTIC CLONING, SAYS VICTORIAN PREMIER
Unless Australia legalises therapeutic cloning, it will lose billions of dollars and fall behind in science, according to Victorian Premier Steve Bracks. In an interview...
WHAT’S WRONG WITH CLONING ANYWAY?
Although scientists regularly swear that reproductive cloning is unethical because it is unsafe, almost none of them grasp the nettle of whether it would be...
IN BRIEF: back again; scientists oppose Bush; Blair
BACK AGAIN: Advanced Cell Technology, the US company which was pilloried recently for misrepresenting its discovery that stem cell lines can be created from 8-cell...
AGE SHALL NOT WEARY THEM, AND PAYPAL SHALL PICK UP THE TAB
Silicon Valley philanthropists have become an important source of funding for blue sky biotechnology projects in recent years. The co-founder of Microsoft, Paul Allen, gave...
BRITISH SCIENTISTS IMPRESSED BY POSSIBILITY OF STEM CELL REPROGRAMMING
Two leading UK stem cell scientists, Azim Surani, and Anne McLaren, have given top marks to the Japanese discovery that adult cells can be reprogrammed...
NEW ORLEANS DOCTOR DEFENDS HERSELF AGAINST KATRINA KILLINGS
A New Orleans ear, nose and throat specialist accused, along with two nurses, of four mercy killings in the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, has...
ITALY ROILED BY EUTHANASIA ROW
It's time for a debate about the legalisation of voluntary euthanasia, says the President of Italy, Giorgio Napolitano. He was responding to an open letter...
SPACED OUT BIOETHICS
How far can the profession of bioethics take you? Possibly into outer space, it seems. NASA has recently engaged its first chief bioethicist, Paul Root...
PETER SINGER DRAWS A LINE IN THE SAND
Australian bioethicist Peter Singer has a reputation of supporting nearly any form of technological progress, no matter how much it may conflict with traditional ethical...
IN BRIEF: NEJM, stem cell source
NEJM & STEM CELLS: the New England Journal of Medicine has again expressed its strong support for therapeutic cloning. The deputy editor of the prestigious...