Experts: Safeguards lacking on cadavers
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Despite recent ghoulish cases of illegal sales of human body parts, the nation still lacks a universal oversight system to prevent illicit marketing of cadavers donated to science, experts say.
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The national transplant waiting list has grown to more than 87,000 because organ donations from the dead have not kept up with demand. For help, frustrated patients increasingly are turning to the living &#151; even to strangers. That worries bioethicists, surgeons and federal officials who oversee the transplant system, which is designed to treat all patients fairly.
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Potential sperm donors should not be concerned by new laws allowing them to be traced, research suggests.
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Continuano i ritrovamenti di cadaveri non identificati
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Police must be barred from storing profiles of innocent people on national DNA database, experts say.
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Experts cast doubt on claims that a scientist has made embryos from dead people's tissue.
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As nameless bodies are bulldozed into mass graves, the lack of physical remains is intensifying the grief for families still wondering about missing loved ones.
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Justices appeared skeptical of both sides in a state Supreme Court hearing on whether the brain, heart and other body parts removed during an autopsy should be returned to the relatives of the deceased instead of being destroyed.
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Despite advances in DNA analysis, the nature of the Indian Ocean disaster may prevent investigators from reuniting thousands of victims with their identities. By Randy Dotinga.
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Preventing outbreaks of diseases across  tsunami-hit Asia is a race against time, but contrary to  popular belief, the thousands of rotting corpses do not pose  the main threat, health officials said on Thursday.
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Three years after the Sept. 11 attacks and subsequent anthrax scare, medical experts are still struggling with how best to handle a widespread bioterrorism attack.
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Academics say safety concerns of new generation of plants have not yet been addressed
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The death of the Crocodile Hunter brings a few security lessons to our columnist's mind.
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Maybe it comes of too much exposure to the forensic specialists who slice, sniff, and sort through &quot;CSI&quot; and its serial television variations. But it is apparent that, when building a case, even in a book, a whole body is more informative than a skeleton, and a whole skeleton beats a partial one.
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U.S. military officials fear that religious hurdles in exhuming the body of a teenager could complicate the prosecution of American soldiers accused of raping and murdering the girl &amp;#151; and create a political nightmare for the U.S. mission here.
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Â· Medical experts initially failed to tell of affiliationsÂ· MPs told only after explicit request for information
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DERA BUGTI, Pakistan -- Doubt swirled around yesterday's funeral for a tribal chief killed in a Pakistani military raid after officials rejected demands to open his padlocked coffin for inspection and buried it in a different location than where his family wanted.