Looking for new sources of multipotent stem cells? Try dandruff. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have found that hair follicles are...

The desire of older professional women to bear IVF children with donated eggs relies upon exploited women in Eastern Europe, the London Daily Mail claims....

Peasant misery: Overwhelmed by their struggle with the land, 35 farmers in the Indian state Maharashtra have written to the Indian president seeking euthanasia. A...

The Canadian government is planning to investigate allegations that Falun Gong members in Chinese prisons are being murdered and their organs sold to transplant patients....

Disgraced Korean stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk has admitted that he ordered subordinates to falsify his cloning research. But he has insisted at his trial...

Neurologists are thrilled at the chance to examine the brain of an American man who "woke up" after 19 unresponsive years in a state of...

Oregon and California are developing "business clusters for surrogacy" which attract clients from other American states and Canada and other countries because pregnancy for profit...

This has been a bumper week for stories about the unintended effects of artificial reproduction -- mostly from the UK, where, because of a high...

Artificial sperm: Researchers in the UK have produced functional sperm from mouse embryonic stem cells. Seven mice were born as a result, of which six...

Last week there was no issue of BioEdge. Our apologies. The Editor was felled by the flu. DOLLY'S CLONER BACKS DESIGNER BABIES   A book...

Last year the British Medical Association abandoned a decades-old policy of opposition to assisted suicide and euthanasia in a controversial vote at its annual meeting....

Lie detectors which scan the brain and not trembling hands and racing pulses are a new challenge for bioethics, and especially its newer sub-speciality, neuroethics....