Bone marrow stem cells have been used to create heart valve cells, raising hopes that an entire heart could be grown from stem cells within...

Australian mercy killing: Parents who killed their 28-year-old severely disabled son have been placed on a five-year good behaviour bond after pleading guilty. Their child,...

 One of the media's most astute observers of bioethical trends is William Saletan, chief national correspondent of the web magazine Slate. He recently surveyed a...

 About 10% of all kidney transplants are a product of transplant tourism, says the World Health Organisation. About 66,000 kidneys were transplanted in 2005, with...

 It's a week for euthanasia anniversaries. The Netherlands is commemorating the fifth anniversary of the legalisation of euthanasia on April 1, 2002. Radio Netherlands interviewed...

Is the New England Journal of Medicine supporting a campaign to allow scientists to pay for women's eggs for stem cell research? A number of...

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the tax-payer funded body which will dispense US$3 billion for stem cell research, is red-faced over a grant to...

 Although live births from frozen eggs are still only counted in the hundreds, some IVF clinics are quietly optimistic that problems can be overcome, says...

 Even more questions are being asked about a high-profile paper in Nature which claimed that a type of adult stem cell was as versatile as...

Another advance on the adult stem cell front comes from the University of Dusseldorf, in Germany, where doctors have found that bone marrow stem cells...

Rules for America's organ transplant centres are to be tightened after a series of scandals revealed embarrassing gaps in the national system. If the rules...

While American law is firmly against payment for organs, some states are treading a delicate ethical line by promoting tax breaks for donors' expenses. Virginia...