STEM CELL LINES: A mere 150 stem cell lines would provide treatments for 40% of the UK population, claim British geneticists. Based on a study...

French surgeons have performed the world's first face transplant, a development which has provoked mixed reactions amongst their colleagues and bioethicists. The patient is a...

A government campaign is needed to make British Pakistanis aware of the medical risks of cousin marriages, says a Labour MP. Ann Cryer says that...

Chinese authorities have admitted for the fist time that organs from executed prisoners are being sold to ailing foreigners. According to the London Times, Huang...

After 20 years of preparation, a British researcher has announced that he will use adult stem cells to try to cure or at least help...

Therapeutic cloning has taken another body blow with a report in a leading journal that cloned embryos appear to be genetically normal, even though most...

 The Dutch government is to set up a commission to oversee the euthanasia of seriously ill newborns. The commission will be able to approve late...

With South Korean researchers under the hammer for allegedly lax informed consent procedures, it is interesting to note a strain of thought in the US...

New Zealand: Australian euthanasia activist Dr Philip Nitschke plans to move to New Zealand in January to carry on his campaign from Auckland. However, the...

 Researchers who want to clone human embryos and create stem cells are facing the biggest public relations disaster in the history of their fledgling science....

 Newspaper accounts of the Hwang debacle brought to light something that BioEdge missed earlier in the year: a South Korea postage stamp honouring his achievement....