Sperm donation: The UK has effectively banned the sale of fresh sperm over the internet. All samples gathered by on-line providers must be frozen and...

The website of the shows what most voters, and not just in Missouri, expect from embryonic stem cell (ESC) research. The Coalition is battling for...

 Singapore is jockeying for a position as a world leader in stem cell research. Researchers disgruntled with meagre funding or restrictive regulation in their home...

What should stem cell scientists do when their moral views clash with society's? First, set up an eminent persons committee and call for consultation and...

Australian politicians are gearing up for a conscience vote on therapeutic cloning. Health minister Tony Abbott is doing his best to demonise it by raising...

 Conservative US Senator Sam Brownback has introduced a bill which would bar doctors from prescribing federally controlled drugs to be used in assisted suicide. This...

A 16-year-old cancer patient in Virginia has reached an agreement with a court about how to treat his Hodgkin's disease. Abraham Cherrix and his parents...

Lessons: Investigators into the botched UK drug trial which left six men desperately ill have released an in-depth report. The drug, TGN1412, a monoclonal antibody,...

The United States, like other nations, is facing a huge shortage of organs. At the moment, there are 92, 400 Americans waiting for organs --...

 As embryonic stem cell research comes under closer scrutiny in the US, UK and Australia, stem cell scientists are examining the ethics of egg procurement....

Japanese scientists may be on the track of one of the great dreams of regenerative medicine: making an adult cell revert into an embryonic stem...

Mixing animal and human material to create hybrids should be banned, says the Scottish Council on Human Bioethics. ""Most people are not aware that these...