Fury at cloning scientist&#39;s use of DNA from the dead
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A MAVERICK cloning scientist came under severe criticism yesterday as he denied exploiting bereaved couples by using DNA from their dead children in his experiments.
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An influential World Health Organization committee has upset a some scientists with its recommendation that researchers be permitted to conduct genetic-engineering experiments with the smallpox virus.
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The nation&#39;s fertility clinics vary widely when it comes to how they perform one of the most delicate aspects of their jobs: disposing of unused frozen human embryos that were created to help infertile women become
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Science & environment: Tissue samples that might help discover causes of cot death are being needlessly destroyed, say experts
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Religious belief is determined by a person&#39;s genetic make-up according to a study by a leading scientist. After comparing more than 2,000 DNA samples, an American molecular geneticist has
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Opponents of human therapeutic cloning begin a legal challenge to the granting of the first UK licence.
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'There has to be a limit to police powers' Analysis The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has condemned the retention of "innocent" DNA on the National Database as unjustifed and unethical with "overtones of a police state".â¦
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Britain&#39;s leading scientists today urge the United Nations to ban cloning of babies but leave open the door for cloning of embryo stem cells as treatments for so-far incurable illnesses.
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The testing of an artificial spinal disk provides a stark example of conflicts of interest among clinical researchers.
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It goes against the current scientific conventional wisdom. But a suprising new study suggests that therapeutic cloning may be more successful using the most mature adult cells
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CASTELGANDOLFO, Italy  - Pope John Paul on Sunday  condemned human cloning as an arrogant attempt to improve on  God's creation.
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A doctor from the First Coast was able to spend time with recently deceased actor, Christopher Reeve, whose efforts to promote stem cell research continues to stir up controversy.
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Postmortem tests on an Illinois woman who died mysteriously in July after getting an experimental gene treatment show no evidence that she was killed directly by the genetically altered viruses she was given, a committee of experts was told yesterday.
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Pope Benedict on Saturday condemned genetic engineering and other scientific practices that allow people to select so-called "designer babies" by screening them for defects.
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Scientists are warning would-be slimmers to be careful about using 'DNA-diets' on the internet.
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Millionaires' club sets genome target A $10m carrot is being dangled at biotech firms to encourage them to redouble efforts to make genome sequencing available to individuals.â¦
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Christopher Reeve&#39;s death is hitting many people hard, especially those involved in the stem cell research debate. After Reeve was paralyzed in 1995, he became an advocate for embryonic stem cell research.