A Japanese man deep in debt has been arrested after making assisted suicide into a money-spinner. Kazunari Saito, 33, will probably be charged with murder-by-contract,...

Despite protests from doctors and feminists, "mommy makeovers" -- breast augmentation, tummy tucks, and liposuction -- are becoming more and more popular in the US...

Robots will become so much like people in the future that we could fall in love with them, have sex with them, and even marry...

ILLINOIS: The giant US retailer Walgreens has reached a settlement with the state of Illinois which will allow its pharmacists to refuse to dispense the...

US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has vowed to lift restrictions on embryonic stem research should she be elected. This was the first of a number...

Science has a serious marketing problem, Google co-founder earlier this year. He even suggested that the solution was tying tenure and grants to the media...

While we're on the topic of flag-waving, British stem cell scientists are waving one, but it's not the white kerchief of surrender, but the Union...

More news from the everything-is-genetic camp. According to an article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Bjorn Wallace, of the Stockholm School...

Amnesty International is keeping its hand in bioethical debates. Not long after endorsing abortion as a woman's right in certain cases, it has condemned doctors...

The Church of England in the UK has declared that organ donation is a Christian duty. This supports the government's desire to establish a presumed...

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine will soon have US$3 billion to spend -- but it is already having trouble handing out the loot. One...