In an opening speech to a congress on the pre-implantation embryo sponsored by the Pontifical Academy for Life, Pope Benedict XVI has reaffirmed the Catholic...

In a frontal attack on Roe v Wade, the icon of the pro-choice movement, the Republican governor of South Dakota has signed a law banning...

One of the first rules of the sex selection business ought to be: never, ever, say 99.9% accurate. Unfortunately the manufacturers of Baby Gender Mentor,...

Supporters of a deregulated environment for assisted reproduction often complain that the world is a patchwork quilt of conflicting and inconsistent legislation. A debate in...

German doctors have found that their method of using bone marrow stem cells to repair tissue damaged by heart attacks did not work in a...

India has become "a nation of guinea pigs", claims Wired journalist Jennifer Kahn. Legislation was passed last year which allows drug companies to test their...

IVF: About 40 per cent of parents who were about to embark upon assisted reproductive technology were found to have a psychiatric disorder, Dr Michael...

Reproductive technology is seldom viewed as a industry, but for better or worse, it is. Now a Harvard Business School professor has written a book...

Disgraced stem cell researcher Hwang Woo-suk has told Korean state auditors that he used some of his funding to grease the palm of local politicians....

 One overlooked proposal in President Bush's State of the Union speech on January 31 centred on cloning: "I ask you to pass legislation to prohibit...

Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets of Oxford on Sunday to march in support of a ?18 biomedical research laboratory. Work on the lab...

A 62-year-old woman who has had 3 husbands, 11 children, 20 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren has given birth to her 12th child with the help...