Doctors should use extreme caution in pulling the plug on patients in a vegetative state, according to reports presented at the European Neurological Society. Around...

Working days, nights and weekends, with criminal charges hanging over his head, disgraced stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk is trying to climb the steep hill...

A recent scandal has brought to light the fact that most Indian doctors are not taught medical ethics. A doctor in Tamil Nadu allowed his...

Uninhabited: What would happen if mankind were to vanish from Planet Earth? An answer is given in a new book by US journalist Alan Weisman,...

 Artificial life is around the corner, says gene pioneer Craig Venter. His project of creating a "minimal bacterial genome" is only weeks or months away...

 The UK's leading medical research group says that creating hybrid embryos from empty animal eggs and human genetic material is "vital" for the fight against...

 America's culture wars appear to be invading the world's most prestigious scientific journal, Nature. The lead editorial in the June 14 issue is a combative...

Penguin India has just released a book by activist Gita Aravamudan on the country's increasingly skewed sex ratio. She says that she was goaded into...

From Tamil Nadu, in southern India comes news of a 15-year-old whiz kid surgeon. Dhileepan Raj successfully performed a Caesarean section under the watchful eyes...

Primate cloning: An American scientist has announced that he has been able to perform therapeutic cloning with a rhesus monkey. If this is confirmed, it...

 Ten years ago there was Dolly the Scottish cloned sheep and the race towards therapeutic cloning was on. Ten years later there are Japanese mice...

 There was excitement, too, on Capitol Hill, in Washington DC, over the stunning new research, which appeared in the journal Nature just before the House...