Stem cells: Researchers at the University of Southern California School of Dentistry have found that stem cells from the extracted wisdom teeth of young adults...

 All pregnant American women should be offered screening for Down syndrome in their first trimestre, not just over-35s, according to guidelines from the American College...

A 67-year-old Spanish woman became the world's oldest new mother when she gave birth to twins in Barcelona in December. The babies are said to...

 Stage 1 of a controversy over the fate of a Italian man paralysed by muscular dystrophy has finished. Cutting through legal and medical debate, anaesthetist...

It's hardly mainstream medicine, but advances in stem cell technology and organ transplantation have created opportunities for ghastly exploitation of babies and children by unscrupulous...

A controversial critic of embryonic stem cell research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has cited racism as the reason why he was denied tenure....

The head of the UK's Medical Research Council, Oxford professor , has predicted that opposition to embryonic stem cell research by religious absolutists will evaporate...

American scientists are playing the patriotism card in their efforts to lift restrictions on embryonic stem cell research. While their colleagues in Singapore, China and...

A new form of IVF could revolutionise fertility treatment by cutting down on the need for high doses of potentially harmful hormones. Instead of stimulating...

THERAPEUTIC CLONING OVERSOLD, SAYS UK EXPERT Therapeutic cloning will be useless in clinical medicine, says one of Britain's leading stem cell biologists. Professor Austin Smith,...

 Dollars-and-cents calculations have become part of the debate over assisted suicide and euthanasia, argues a British doctor in the journal Bioethics. Dr Miran Epstein says...

Scratching your head over where to find versatile but non- controversial stem cells to replace the embryonic kind? Keep on scratching. Researchers at the Medical...