Voters in Switzerland will decide in a referendum next month whether scientists should be allowed to extract stem cells from surplus" IVF embryos. A law...

The largest review ever of IVF children has found that the way they were conceived did not have an impact on their overall health, although...

 Schiavo -- In the latest incident in the long-running Terri Schiavo case, the Florida Supreme Court has rebuffed another attempt by Governor Jeb Bush to...

In the closing weeks of the US presidential campaign, the use of embryonic stem cells (ESCs) has become a clear point of difference between the...

 Scientists at Harvard University will probably become the first in the US to clone human embryos for research. Two separate teams at the newly-formed Harvard...

Doctors caring for a critically ill infant may decide if she should be denied life-saving treatment, a judge of the UK High Court has ruled....

A dispute over whether a Colorado man died before or after his organs were harvested has highlighted the ambiguous nature of "brain death". Last month...

A 47-year-old Singaporean woman is suing her obstetrician because he failed to offer her a chance to abort her Down Syndrome child. The case is...

Police in Coventry have arrested two animal rights activists for desecrating the grave of a woman linked to a farm where guinea pigs are bred...

 The French government has set in place a law which allows scientists to create embryonic stem cells from "spare" IVF embryos. The deputy minister for...

Two research teams have claimed this month that embryonic stem cells (ESCs) can help restore heart function -- although human applications are still years away....

A study by UK scientists in Nature Biotechnology indicates that ushering in the era of genetic engineering and personalised medicine may be more involved than...