Can we, should we, erase bad memories?
Recent advances more a talking point than progressIn the film Eternal Sunshine Of the Spotless Mind, Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet use a specialist medical...
Kidney donors have normal life span
No excessive risk of end-state kidney diseaseAn essential element in discussions of the ethics of kidney donation is whether donors suffer as a result of...
Pope warns of new eugenics movement
Vatican conference on "New Frontiers of Genetics and the Danger of Eugenics" The Pope has warned of the dangers of a new eugenics. Addressing scientists...
Cost of IVF explains octuplets
Lack of government and private insurance means corner-cutting Her publicist has resigned after death threats. She has been reviled as unhinged, irresponsible and parasitic. Her...
Obama delays lifting of ban on stem cell funding
Advocates are impatient "As president, I will lift the current administration’s ban on federal funding of research on embryonic stem cell lines created after August...
Foreigners evade transplant ban in China
17 Japanese get organs The habit of organ trafficking dies hard. Even though transplants for foreigners have been banned in China since May 1, 2007,...
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Obama accused of politicising science
Controversy over census bureau There were few tears from scientists at the departure of President George W. Bush from the White House. Many of them...
North Dakota attempts to define embryo as a person
But will it pass the State Senate? North Dakota has become the first US state to move towards passing a law defining the beginning of...
Family connections for Obama’s bioethical ear
Bioethicist brother of Obama’s chief of staff becomes adviser As foreshadowed in BioEdge, the bioethicist brother of President Obama’s chief of staff has been appointed...
Stem cell tragedy for Israeli boy
Tumours grow in brain and spine following treatment Stem cells grew into tumours in an Israeli child whose desperate parents brought him to a Moscow...