Japan debates rules for organ donation
Faced with a lengthening list of candidates for heart transplants and a tiny list of donors, Japanese patients are going overseas to the US, Canada...
Bride famine arrives in India
Indian social scientists are predicting a rise in sexual violence and wife-sharing because 40 million aborted girls are missing from the population. It is estimated...
Nobel laureates back Kerry as white knight of US science
Forty-eight Nobel-Prize winning scientists have backed Democrat presidential hopeful John Kerry as the best hope for American science. President George Bush, they charge, had short-...
Freezing eggs could be big business for US MBA student
A Harvard Business School student has founded a company which promises to extend women's fertility with the unproven technique of egg-freezing. Christina Jones, 34, who...
Single cell could yield foetal diagnosis
An Australian scientist working for a US pathology giant is developing single-cell fingerprinting in a new laboratory in Brisbane. The work of Associate Professor Jock...
Two more British suicide tourists die in Zurich
The Swiss suicide clinic Dignitas has helped a mentally ill British couple to die in its Zurich clinic. Robert Stokes, 59, and his wife Jennifer...
Scottish bioethics council calls for embryo research moratorium
The Scottish Council on Human Bioethics has called for a moratorium on all research on human embryos in the UK because laws regulating the field...
Australian euthanasia activist promotes suicide pill in US
Australian assisted suicide activist Dr Philip Nitschke is spruiking his "peaceful pill" in the US while he attends the launch of a documentary about his...
UK’s first legal human clones on the way
Amidst bitter controversy, the UK's fertility medicine watchdog is preparing to approve the nation's first human clones. A Serbian scientist at Newcastle University who left...
Steep fee rises mooted for embryo research in UK
The fee for a government licence to conduct research on embryos in the UK could soar from ?200 to ?6,000 because of Treasury cost-recovery rules....
Arab states may ban both types of cloning
Legal experts from the Arab League have hammered out a consensus on cloning which would lead to laws banning both reproductive and research cloning. At...