Hwang back on the job, cloning dogs
Disgraced Korean stem cell scientist is making a professional comeback as a dog cloner Disgraced Korean stem cell scientist is making a professional comeback as...
Stem cell scientists seek to shed snake oil image
ISSCR to issue new guidelines The Google webpage advertisement for the X-Cell Centre in Cologne, Germany says “Fight your degenerative disease now! Unique European clinic...
California euthanasia lobby scores victory
Bill passed to inform dying patients of “options” California’s euthanasia lobby scored a victory in late May when the lower house in the state legislature...
Nature attacks ‘human dignity’
“Notoriously subjective”, says world’s leading journal Human dignity is a contradictory, “notoriously subjective” and “slippery” concept, according to the world’s leading science journal, Nature. In...
Surprise on operating table
French heart attack victim lucky the doctors were running behind schedule A 45-year-old French man who collapsed with a massive heart attack and was pronounced...
US Catholic bishops reject embryonic stem cell research
Major statement issued in election year American Catholic bishops have entered the public square in an election year with an unequivocal rejection of human embryonic...
When the brain “dies”, is a person still inside?
An academic debate with real-world consequencesTo the layman, "brain dead" means either a blood-spattered zombie film or well and truly dead, ie, no longer alive....
Disability activist and foe of Peter Singer passes away
Harriet McBryde Johnson broke conventions Harriet McBryde Johnson, a disability activist who was a prominent foe of bioethicist Peter Singer, has passed away at the...
Ignoring the alarm clock is in your genes
Genetic test for sleep patternsAnother intriguing excursion into the genetic-explanation-for-everything: pillow hugging. With a swab from your cheek, scientists at the Swansea University can now...
Safer method of reprogramming cells
Scripps researcher uses chemical cocktailsAlthough the new technique developed by Japanese scientist Shinya Yamanaka for creating cells which seem to have the properties of embryonic...
Adult stem cells from nose can morph into brain cells
Australian discoveryAnd in another stem cell development, Australian researchers have found that adult stem cells harvested from stem cells from the olfactory nerve in the...
Cloning the dead
Britain to legalise cloning from tissue of dead people The British government has decided to legalise cloning dead people after lobbying from stem cell scientists....