BioEdge

A fertility expert in the UK has urged career women to freeze their eggs if they want to have children later in life. Dr Gillian...

Another promising method of producing embryonic stem cells without destroying embryos is being studied at Michigan State University. In the Proceedings of the National Academy...

Human embryonic stem cells could be ideal for drug testing, say Israeli scientists. Karl Skorecki and Maty Tzukerman, of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, have...

We're not sure whether supporters or opponents of IVF and stem cell research will find this brief video useful. Perhaps both.    IN BRIEF: Israel;...

Massachusetts voters must have thought that their politicians' bunfight over human embryonic stem cells was past history. Last year, overriding Governor Mitt Romney's veto, the...

 A report to the Australian Prime Minister and his Cabinet could undercut the support of some parliamentarians for the legalisation of therapeutic cloning. The engine...

Dutch authorities are alarmed by the discovery that a group of high school girls had egged each other on to commit suicide with macabre emails...

Euthanasia is back in the Australian headlines again. This time a maverick parliamentarian in South Australia has used parliamentary privilege to deliver a speech detailing...

A small US biotech's claim in the journal Nature that it had found a way to obtain "ethical" embryonic stem cells is looking more and...

Teenagers are to be discouraged from getting cosmetic surgery in New South Wales, after Premier Morris Iemma discovered that a recent contestant on Australia's version...

With perhaps 100 million species of living organisms on Planet Earth, the tree of life might seem full to bursting. But not to some scientists....

OBESITY AND IVF: Severely obese women should be denied access to free fertility treatment, the British Fertility Society said recently. Women with a body mass...