Italian courts are grappling with their own Terri Schiavo, a 34- year-old woman, Eluana Englaro, who has been in a coma for 15 years after...

Can President Bush's weakening hold on Washington bureaucracy be detected in its bioethics? The head of the National Institutes of Health, Elias Zerhouni, has again...

Despite claims by a number of clinics that egg freezing is a viable option for women who want to defer childbearing, the peak IVF body...

A company offering to bank frozen embryos in case a sibling might need tissue-matched organs later in life has been denounced by IVF scientists at...

More than 100 babies with minor disabilities, such as a cleft palate or club foot, were aborted in just one region of England between 2002...

Accident victims could have nerves restored with the help of stem cells from their own fat. Scientists at the University of Manchester in the UK...

The newly-appointed head of the world's biggest stem cell program, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, IVF scientist Alan Trounson, has been embarrassed by irregularities...

With high-profile scandals like the reports fabricated by stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk in mind, everyone is concerned with a growing incidence of scientific misconduct....

James Watson, 1962 Nobel laureate for discovering the structure of DNA, has kindled a huge controversy in the UK by making apparently racist remarks in...

A leading US stem cell scientist has declared that embryos are human and have a human soul from the beginning of their existence. Writing in...

In a similar vein, one of the best-known American stem cell scientists, John Gearhart, of Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, writes in the New England...

This year's Nobel awards for medicine highlight the growing possibilities of genetically-enhanced humans. Mario Capecchi, of the University of Utah, Martin Evans, of Cardiff University...