Ethical Stem Cell Pioneer Wins Prestigious Award :1st Oct 09
The scientist responsible for a landmark discovery in the field of ethical stem cells has won one of the world’s most prestigious awards for medical research. Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD, of the...More >>
Croatia Removes Protections for IVF Children But Keeps Ban on Freezing Human...:28th Sep 09
Croatia’s government recently moved to change a law on in vitro fertilisation (IVF), removing measures intended to protect the children conceived using the process. The move comes after strong...More >>
Scientists to Use Human Tissue Without Consent in Human-Animal Embryo...:18th Sep 09
Tens of thousands of samples of human tissue will be offered for use in controversial human/animal hybrid embryo experiments in the UK without the consent of the patients who donated them. New...More >>
Drug Could Make Adult Stem-Cell Treatment for Cancer Far More Effective:9th Sep 09
A new drug has greatly improved cancer treatment with adult stem cells, clinicians have announced. Plerixafor has let doctors collect stem cells from patients in whom there had been...More >>
”I Have Been to Hell and Back”: IVF’s Dangers to Women Spotlighted :17th Aug 09
When Sarah Matthews heard the head of Britain’s infertility industry watchdog, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), suggest that women receive up to £3,000 a time to donate...More >>
Hungary Clamps Down on Rogue Stem-Cell Merchants :17th Aug 09
“Stem-cell tourism”—in which people pay for treatment at illegal “guerrilla” clinics—continues to be a lucrative racket. Police in Hungary last month arrested four people they suspect of...More >>
Germany Tightens Law on Adult Stem-Cell Treatments :13th Aug 09
The German government will regulate more closely treatments that involve adult stem cells after a revision of the country’s medical products law won final approval in the Bundesrat, the upper...More >>
Scientists Produce Stem Cells Without Using Embryos :10th Aug 09
Australian researchers in Sydney have made New South Wales’s first human induced pluripotent stem cells—ethically uncontentious stem cells that behave like cells taken from embryonic humans. The...More >>
Archdiocese of Sydney Promotes Ethical Stem-Cell Research :5th Aug 09
Hoping to hasten the end of the use of embryonic humans in experiments, the Catholic Church in Australia is offering a AU$100,000 grant for research into the medical use of adult stem cells. The...More >>
Cardinal Rigali Raps Final US Guidelines for Embryo-Killing Stem-Cell...:22nd Jul 09
Justin Cardinal Rigali, Chairman of the US Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities, has reacted to final guidelines for experiments on human embryonic stem cells issued by the...More >>