BioEdge

 The practice of selectively aborting girls is spreading from India and China to Canada as immigrant communities take root there. Normally the ratio of boy...

 Harvard University has decided to become the first non-commercial institution in the US to attempt human embryo cloning. Researchers will focus on diabetes, neurodegenerative diseases...

American institutional review boards are drowning in paperwork and the resulting frustration could "alienate some researchers enough to turn them into scofflaws", says an editorial...

The British doctor who sparked an international health scare by claiming the standard measles, mumps, rubella vaccine was linked to autism may be charged with...

Some American patients get priority on organ donor lists by signing up on several lists, creating a system in which the wealthy have a better...

A family dispute over the fate of a brain-damaged Adelaide man echoes the bitter controversy over Terri Schiavo. Mark Leigep, 31, a single father, was...

The parents of a mentally ill Czech woman are suing a hospital after she died in a controversial caged bed. An estimated 700 patients are...

Media accounts of medical research are often based on unpublished results at professional conferences and omit important information, say Dartmouth researchers. Writing in the Medical...

Stem cells from testicles: Deep inside testicles lies a rich source of stem cells -- perhaps 0.3% of their tissue. Now British scientists plan to...

The powers of mutants in the recent film X-Men 3: The Last Stand may be fanciful, but not ridiculous, at least to a growing number...

 The creator of the first cloned mammal, Dolly the sheep, says that cloning embryonic human beings is a moral imperative, even though he remains "implacably...

Since 2004 North China's Hebei Province has closed 201 clinics involved in gender selection, an official has said. The province has discovered and dealt with...