The leading journal Nature has exhorted scientists to be aware that they are trespassing on traditional turf of religion when they complain that religion is...

After endorsing a US$3 billion bond issue for stem cell research, California is beginning to realise that the institute coordinating the research will have no...

Ethics: The American Society for Bioethics is sponsoring a conference on "the ethics of bioethics" next April in Albany. Organisers say that the conference will...

The head of the US President's Council on Bioethics, Dr Leon Kass, says that he supports further study of two ethically puzzling alternatives to conventional...

Welsh researchers may have found yet another way of producing embryonic stem cells without destroying embryos. The process uses an enzyme, PLC-zeta, normally produced by...

Austrian scientists have used muscle stem cells as a treatment for urinary incontinence in women. Stress incontinence affects 15 million people, mostly women, around the...

After several encouraging reports that adult stem cells had repaired damaged heart tissue, the latest research pours cold water on the idea. A study in...

France is edging closer to legalising some forms of euthanasia. On November 30 the National Assembly passed a law which attempts to clarify the situation...

A British woman has killed herself in a Swiss suicide clinic after a judge lifted an injunction which had banned her husband from accompanying her...