A leading US spinal injuries surgeon is setting up a research network in China, despite its abysmal ethical standards, to take advantage of the 60,000...

Uneasy with their reputation for using organs from executed prisoners, the Chinese Medical Association has formally repudiated the practice. According to the BMJ, at the...

Bioethics is never far from the war in Iraq. This time, the centre of controversy is Colonel John Holcomb, the head of the US Army's...

In an essay in the leading journal Nature, a Harvard professor of science and technology has called upon scientists to be more humble. In the...

Although umbilical cord blood is a rich source of stem cells, debate rages over whether parents who store it in commercial stem cell banks are...

Renowned MIT stem cell scientist Rudi Jaenisch believes that more scientific cooperation could lead to more understanding and less fanaticism and intolerance in the relationship...

Chinese neurosurgeons are treating mental illness with brain surgery, a practice which has practically disappeared in the West. According to the Wall Street Journal, doctors...

Encouraging news for transhumanists who want to extend human lifespans to Methuselah levels: scientists at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, have genetically engineered...

Sir Isaac Newton once marvelled at "the great ocean of truth [which] lay all undiscovered before me", but modern scientists will soon turn the ocean...

Thousands of patients who took place in clinical trials may never learn whether the drugs or devices were faulty, the New York Times says. Although...

Just a bit of flaky news for genetics buffs: Proctor & Gamble has sequenced the complete genome for a fungus that causes dandruff. In an...

Patients with chronic lung disease are being denied intensive care treatment because doctors are too pessimistic about their chances, research suggests.A British Medical Journal study...