Fathers will not be required for IVF children under a proposed shake- up of Britain's fertility legislation. The Blair Government feels that a revision is...

With 94,000 Americans on an ever-lengthening list of candidates for organ donation, transplant surgeons are eager to expand the pool of potential donors. An op-ed...

Four centres of excellence should be established to carry out experiments on primates because they are essential for medical research, claim UK experts in an...

Disgraced stem cell researcher Hwang Woo-suk is making a quiet return to scientific research, even though he is still in the middle of a trial...

Convicted murderer and euthanasia activist Jack Kevorkian has been granted parole. He has promised not to participate in any more assisted suicides. Kevorkian was convicted...

Serial killers: At least 90 health care professionals have been prosecuted for killing more than 2,000 patients since 1970, according to a study in the...

 An upcoming article in the journal Fertility and Sterility shows that some disabled parents in the US are using pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) to create...

After a year of debate, Australia has legalised therapeutic cloning. In a rare conscience vote (meaning that members of Parliament are not bound by party...

A senior US government scientist has pleaded guilty to failing to disclose US$285,000 in payments from the drug company Pfizer. Dr Trey Sunderland of the...

A British company has asked American authorities for permission to trial a cure for stroke using brain cells from an aborted foetus. Although opponents of...

"A polemic without precedent" was how Le Monde described an attack by the Catholic Church's hierarchy on a fund-raiser for muscular dystrophy. For about 20...

Echoes of Hwang: Another article in Science about embryos has been found to contain fraudulent data. Michael Roberts, of the University of Missouri-Columbia, has acknowledged...