Private labs offer “biological insurance” Commercial laboratories have moved into marketing tooth stem cells as a kind of health insurance for children. Preserving cord blood is...

Adult stem cells may be in some doubt Adult cells that have been reprogrammed into stem cells may harbour genetic mutations, some of them cancerous. In...

Hi there, It’s always best to wait for both sides of a story to emerge. But a New York Times report makes Georgetown University Medical...

Mutilation is a punishment which most Americans associate with Saudi Arabia, where thieves can have their hands lopped off. But this week a 78-year-old Louisiana...

President Obama’s bioethics commission has formed an international research panel to examine protections for human subjects in clinical trials. President Obama’s bioethics commission has formed...

The Obama administration a fortnight ago rescinded most of a federal regulation designed to protect healthcare workers who refuse to provide care on moral or...

The seeds of criminal and antisocial behaviour can be detected in children as young as three by using tests and brain imaging, a leading criminologist...

Efforts to “best utilize the gift of the donated organ” The US organ-transplant network may reserve its best kidneys for younger, healthier people over older,...

In yet another grandmother surrogacy story, a 57-year-old UK woman gave birth to her own grandson after her daughter was medically unable to have a...

Abortion advice raises concerns The UK’s Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists plans to advise women that it is safer to have an abortion than...

Cloning presents significant health risks  A leading animal cloning organisation, New Zealand’s AgResearch, has ended cloning trials because of unacceptable death rates. But the science...