KOREAN GOVT MUST INVESTIGATE ETHICS BREACH, SAYS NATURE
The world's leading scientific journal, Nature, has demanded a Korean government investigation of claims that its world-beating stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk obtained human eggs...
CLONING REPREHENSIBLE – ESPECIALLY IF IT’S UNSAFE
Without a single exception, responsible stem sell scientists are outspoken foes of reproductive cloning. Nearly every plea for the legalisation of therapeutic cloning or for...
SWISS SUICIDE GROUP UNDER INVESTIGATION
The Swiss assisted suicide group Dignitas is being investigated after a healthy 69-year-old German woman killed herself with its help. The woman, who has not...
INCONCEIVABLE STORIES
One of the casualties of this season's American TV is Inconceivable, an NBC series about life in a fertility clinic. It ran only long enough...
CHILDREN OF DONOR DADS SEARCH FOR THEIR SIBLINGS
American children conceived with donor sperm are seeking their biological father through an internet website ? and finding half- siblings by the dozen. Using the...
INDIAN CLINIC OFFERS CURES WITH EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS
Western scientists have called upon the Indian government to investigate a Delhi doctor who is treating patients with human embryonic stem cells. Dr Geeta Shroff,...
BARGAIN BASEMENT COSMETIC SURGERY
An Australian cosmetic surgeon has horrified his colleagues by offering plastic surgery in an online auction. Melbourne doctor Mateen Jabbar has offered 17 separate lots...
IN BRIEF: China; India; Joffe bill; stem cells
Although China's top population official, Zhang Weiqing, has acknowledged that his country's sex ration "has not been checked effectively", he insists that the current one-child...
SCANDAL THREATENS TO SINK KOREAN CLONING PROJECT
Only days after the world's leading embryonic stem cell researcher began receiving thousands of applications from sick patients who want him to make therapeutic clones...
KOREAN EGG BLACK MARKET
Hwang's research could even land one of his colleagues in jail. Dr Roh Sung-il, who runs an infertility clinic in Seoul and is a key...
FINDING SPERM DONOR DADS ON THE INTERNET
An ingenious 15-year-old boy has proved that preserving sperm donor anonymity may be nearly impossible. The boy had been conceived with donor sperm and wanted...
PATIENTS DIE WHILE WAITING FOR LIVERS
Medical ethics includes competent management. This seems to be the lesson from a scandal exposed by the Los Angeles Times in which more than 30...