OXFORD LAB STILL PLAGUED BY PROTEST
The endless battle between Oxford University and animal rights groups continues. In the latest instalment, the group Speak says that it has discovered where the...
CHINESE HOSPITAL SPRUIKS SPINAL CURES
Although stem cell cures for spinal cord injury and motor neurone disease still are still a distant dream in the US and Europe, a doctor...
A GOOD WAY TO GO: MOUSE EUTHANASIA
While politicians fret about euthanasing humans, bench scientists in the US and UK are having bunfights over euthanasing mice. According to Nature, tens, perhaps hundreds,...
SPERM DONOR CRISIS IN SCOTLAND
All of Scotland's five fertility clinics are struggling and one has closed for lack of sperm donors. A recent law has given people in the...
SWISS TO KEEP ASSISTED SUICIDE
The Swiss government has declared that it has no intention of reining in "suicide tourism". Pressure had been mounting for tighter controls on assisted suicide...
IN BRIEF: stem cells, Philip Nitschke, Ronald Cranford
STEM CELL CONFERENCE: Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle will be the keynote speaker at the second annual National Stem Cell Policy and Advocacy Summit at Stanford...
ENGINEERS OF SYNTHETIC LIFE SEARCH FOR GUIDELINES
Scientists working in the new field of synthetic biology have yielded to public pressure and deferred adopting a self-regulating code of conduct. Synthetic biology, which...
INDIAN CLINICAL TRIALS WILL BE ETHICAL, SAY LOCAL DOCTORS
Indian doctors and scientists have dismissed fears by foreign observers that their country is being turned into a nation of guinea pigs for drug companies....
YOUR GENES CAN SEND YOU TO THE POORHOUSE
In recent years scientists have been tumbling over each other to announce the discovery of disease-causing genes for breast cancer, colon cancer, Huntington's, bubble boy...
KEVORKIAN SEEKS PAROLE
America's Dr Death, Jack Kevorkian, celebrated his 78th birthday on May 26 in jail. It seems that he has less than a year to live....
STEM CELLS BECOMING US ELECTION ISSUE AGAIN
November elections in the US could spark debates over stem cell regulations in the coming months. Thirty-three seats in the Senate and 435 seats in...
EUTHANASIA HARMS DOCTORS, TOO
Doctors who participate in physician-assisted suicide are scarred emotionally and psychologically by the experience, according to a study by a doctor opposed to the practice....