With the political and ethical logjam broken, opportunities open up. Stem cell scientists have hit a gusher, says the New York Times, with proof by...

The former head of the President's Council on Bioethics, Dr Leon Kass, says that the validation of reprogramming is an opportunity to pass long-delayed legislation...

The chairman of the CIRM accused of supporting conflict of interest California's stem cell institute, the best-funded in the world, has not had an easy...

The first solid evidence that gene therapy can work in the brain. Encouraging news on the gene therapy front: researchers have reported that gene therapy...

The short answer is No, despite their knowledge of the brain. Because they appreciate that the neural circuits that control a teenager's ability to focus...

Doctors operated on the wrong side of the heads of three patients in a US teaching hospital A Rhode Island hospital has been fined and...

The activities of British extremists have been curtailed by tough government legislation. Researchers who work with animals in the UK are feeling safer from harassment...

Two separate teams in Japan and the US have simultaneously published papers showing that ordinary human skin cells can be reprogrammed to behave like embryonic...

Nature took no chances in checking the validity of recent paper. The thrill of cloning a rhesus macaque monkey has already faded, even though it...

Bizarre family structures emerge because of shortage of women. The Indian state of Haryana has convicted another doctor of determining the sex of an unborn...

Report from UN thinktank says that reproductive cloning is inevitable. Human reproductive cloning should be banned globally to prevent rogue scientists from creating cloned babies,...