When do politicians lose the right to medical privacy? For Israelis, this is hardly a theoretical question. When Prime Minister Ariel Sharon collapsed with a...

Therapeutic cloning will only succeed if scientists can source all the eggs they need to create cloned embryos. Since egg retrieval is uncomfortable, at best,...

Australia could possibly legalise therapeutic cloning, after Federal cabinet was roundly criticised for recommending that a national ban be extended. Health Minister Tony Abbott reportedly...

Researchers at the University of Milan claim to have created embryonic stem cells without embryos, leading to hopes that they can be created "ethically". Their...

Paralysed rats treated with a cocktail of embryonic stem cells, adult stem cells, proteins and drugs have recovered some movement, say researchers at Johns Hopkins...

With IVF specialists hot in pursuit of genes for dread diseases so that they can filter out defective embryos, the latest issue of Science brings...

This (Northern) summer could bring a debate on stem cell research in the US Congress. Senate majority leader Bill Frist says that he plans to...

DIGNITAS: Four Australians have apparently journeyed to Switzerland to die at the Dignitas assisted suicide clinic in Zurich. This news emerged after euthanasia activist Dr...

The locked door to transforming one type of cell into another may have opened a crack. In a development which could have manifold ethical, political...

 Stem cell expert Hwang Woo-suk and five other scientists who allegedly faked stem cell research went on trial this week in Seoul. They have been...

 Two of America's leading medical organisations have banned members from participating in interrogations and torture in places like Guantanamo Bay. A new policy by American...

 And on the other side of the wire at Guantanamo Bay, a prominent Cuban doctor has written a scathing denunciation of her country's use of...