Is contraception a form of abortion? Yes, says Bush Admin
Proposed definition would include many forms of birth control Although the Bush Administration days are numbered, it is still capable of needling feminists and abortion...
Many IVF techniques ‘untested and hugely expensive’, say experts
Desperate couples will do anything to have a child IVF is generally believed to be a benign, if expensive, form of treatment for infertility. However,...
Romance and your genes
A Swiss company offers to find a soulmate based on your DNA Looking for your soulmate to be your life companion? Simple: use a cotton...
Democrat? Republican? It’s in your DNA
More news from the "genetics explains everything" front More news from the "genetics explains everything" front: the way you vote is genetically determined. James Fowler,...
Some stem cell lines unethical, researchers learn
Bush’s fault, says bioethicistIt has taken American scientists seven years to wake up to the fact that some of their human embryonic stem cell lines...
Funding deserts embryonic stem cells
Massachusetts company ready to fold The world’s best-known company dealing in embryonic stem cells may have to close its doors. Advanced Cell Technology is a...
No miracle cures in the near future, if at all
Therapeutic cloning on the skids ACT’s plight appears to confirm that therapeutic cloning is on the skids. Over the past eight years the US and...
Mea culpas and they-a culpas
Therapeutic cloning on the skids Here’s an interesting idea about the phenomenon of apologising for the sins of past sins, from bioethicist Alice Dreger, of...
Medical care for centenarians
1.1 million by 2050 With the US facing the prospect of having 1.1 million people over 100 years old by the year 2050, how much...
Criminal bumps make a comeback
US prof links genes to delinquency Back in the 19th century, pioneer Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso claimed that criminality was genetic. Born criminals were throwbacks...
Does sex have a future? Nature’s unsure
The first IVF baby was born 30 years ago. What about the next 30 years? Thirty years ago, on 25 July 1978, the world’s first...
Singapore organ trading scandal
Retail magnate charged with buying kidney A retail magnate has become the first person in Singapore to be charged with buying organs. Tang Wee Sung...