MIT STEM CELL EXPERT SLAMS THERAPEUTIC CLONING
A stem cell scientist from Massachusetts Institute of Technology visiting Australia last week made a vigorous attack upon the science and ethics of therapeutic cloning....
WOMEN WITH DISEASES SHOULD DONATE EGGS, SAYS RESEARCHER
Women with diseases like diabetes and cystic fibrosis should be encouraged to donate their eggs for experiments in therapeutic cloning, according to an Australian scientist....
NORTH KOREAN ENFORCING EUGENICS
In the wake of North Korea's claim to have exploded a nuclear bomb, articles featuring criticism of the cruel and secretive government have again flooded...
CAT CLONING COMPANY SINKS
The world's first cat cloning company, Genetic Savings & Clone, has shut its doors because of low demand. Since the company opened in 2000, it...
OVERCOMING SPERM BANK SHORTAGES
Most British sperm banks have reported shortages ever since the UK government made it possible for IVF children to find out who their biological parents...
THE YOUTUBE STEM CELL WATCH
Everyone expects political ads on television to oversimplify things, but American ads dealing with stem cell research make mere oversimplification look like a PhD dissertation....
CALIFORNIA DREAMING
Patient advocates are dismayed, but the word from the world's best funded stem cell institute is that there will be no cures for at least...
STATE BY STATE STEM-CELL ROUND-UP
With November elections around the corner, a number of races in the US could be decided by voters' views on human embryonic stem cell research....
BRITISH WOMEN STRUCK BY “BIO-PANIC”
More and more single British women and lesbians are embarking upon motherhood without a father, according to the latest IVF statistics. Since 2000, the number...
EUTHANASIA BY STEALTH EMERGES IN UK
The long campaign against euthanasia in the UK is over, writes Dr James Le Fanu, a columnist for the London Telegraph. Even though 50 British...
“FRANKENBUNNIES” ON THE WAY IN UK
Scientists call them early stage hybrid embryos; the media calls them "Frankenbunnies". Whatever the name, they're controversial: the nucleus of a human cell inserted into...
ISRAELI IVF FAILS TO RAISE BIRTH RATE
The conflict between Jews and Arabs in the state of Israel has many battlegrounds -- and one of them is the IVF clinic. According to...
