ANIMAL ACTIVISM WANING IN UK, WAXING IN US AND EUROPE
Oxford University has resumed work on a US$35 million biomedical research centre which has been on ice for 18 months because of protests by animal-rights...
DUTCH “SUICIDE CONSULTANT” JAILED
A 73-year-old Dutch man has been jailed in the Netherlands over his role in helping a 25-year-old woman to commit suicide in 2003. The court...
CORD BLOOD SETBACK
Umbilical cord blood has a reputation for being the easiest source of adult stem stems. Businesses have even sprung up to store it at a...
IF IT QUACKS, IT CAN PROVIDE SAFETY DATA
Researchers at prestigious medical schools in the US are telling some of their patients to go overseas for stem cell therapies which are regarded as...
MIT STEM CELL PROFESSOR LASHES THERAPEUTIC CLONING
Fear of reprisals is one reason why some scientists do not oppose therapeutic cloning, says a professor at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Associate...
IN BRIEF: stem cells; abortion pill
STEM CELL LINES: A mere 150 stem cell lines would provide treatments for 40% of the UK population, claim British geneticists. Based on a study...
DOCTORS QUERY ETHICS OF FIRST FACE TRANSPLANT
French surgeons have performed the world's first face transplant, a development which has provoked mixed reactions amongst their colleagues and bioethicists. The patient is a...
STOP FIRST COUSIN MARRIAGES, SAYS BRITISH MP
A government campaign is needed to make British Pakistanis aware of the medical risks of cousin marriages, says a Labour MP. Ann Cryer says that...
TRADE IN PRISONERS’ ORGANS EXISTS, CHINA ADMITS, AT LAST
Chinese authorities have admitted for the fist time that organs from executed prisoners are being sold to ailing foreigners. According to the London Times, Huang...
NOSE CELLS MAY HELP SPINAL CORD INJURIES
After 20 years of preparation, a British researcher has announced that he will use adult stem cells to try to cure or at least help...
BACK TO THE CLONING DRAWING BOARD?
Therapeutic cloning has taken another body blow with a report in a leading journal that cloned embryos appear to be genetically normal, even though most...