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Image by Dr Christina Weis. © Christina Weis
Image by Dr Christina Weis. © Christina Weis
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18 June 2009 • 2 minutes read

When adults fight over children

by Juliet Tizzard

Surrogacy is back in the news. One British tabloid, the Daily Mail, has talked of little else over the past few days, churning out article after article on the gory details of the story of Claire Austin and her disastrous surrogacy arrangement. The story has all the ingredients of a...

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Image by Peter Artymiuk via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts the shadow of a DNA double helix, on a background that shows the fluorescent banding of the output from a DNA sequencing machine.
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Image by Peter Artymiuk via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts the shadow of a DNA double helix, on a background that shows the fluorescent banding of the sequencing output from an automated DNA sequencing machine.
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9 June 2009 • 1 minute read

Islanders help heart disease researchers

by BioNews

People living on Norfolk Island, an isolated community located 1500 kilometres east of Australia, are helping scientists look for genes that predispose to heart disease. A team of Australian geneticists is currently collecting DNA samples from the islanders, reported New Scientist last week. Most of the island's population is descended...

Image by Dr Christina Weis. © Christina Weis
Image by Dr Christina Weis. © Christina Weis
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9 June 2009 • 1 minute read

British woman in international surrogacy row

by BioNews

A British woman who gave birth to twin baby girls for a European couple is now involved in a dispute with the couple in California who eventually adopted them, reported last week's Mail on Sunday. Claire Austin, who has acted as a surrogate parent twice before and has run her...

Image by Bill Sanderson via the Wellcome Collection, © Wellcome Trust Ltd 1990. Depicts Laocoön and his family (from Greek and Roman mythology) entwined in coils of DNA.
Image by Bill Sanderson via the Wellcome Collection, © Wellcome Trust Ltd 1990. Depicts Laocoön and his family entwined in coils of DNA (based on the figure of Laocoön from Greek and Roman mythology).
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9 June 2009 • 1 minute read

Controversial cloning patent changed

by BioNews

UK scientists have changed the wording in a controversial patent application covering a method for making genetically altered animals using cells grown in the laboratory. It now specifically excludes the use of the process to clone humans, announced the environmental pressure group Greenpeace last week. The application, jointly submitted by...

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9 June 2009 • 1 minute read

US government hearing on stem-cell research

by BioNews

A US Senate committee has heard the ethical and scientific arguments for and against government funding of embryo stem cell research, reported last week's Nature. Among those who testified were individuals who could benefit from such research, including US actor Christopher Reeve, who was paralysed following a horse-riding accident. Embryo...

Image by Peter Artymiuk via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts the shadow of a DNA double helix, on a background that shows the fluorescent banding of the output from a DNA sequencing machine.
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Image by Peter Artymiuk via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts the shadow of a DNA double helix, on a background that shows the fluorescent banding of the sequencing output from an automated DNA sequencing machine.
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9 June 2009 • 1 minute read

Dispute over patenting of genes in US

by BioNews

The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Patenting and Trademark Office (USPTO) are in disagreement over the patenting of genes with no known function, according to a news report in last week's Nature. USPTO officials say that patents can be granted on genes with no known function if...

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9 June 2009 • 1 minute read

New European panel to promote bioscience

by BioNews

The European Commission has set up a panel of 11 prominent biologists to advise it on the scientific aspects of public controversies sparked by advances in bioscience and biotechnology, reports Nature. The 'Biosciences High Level Group' (BHLG) was set up by research commissioner Philippe Buskin to complement the existing advisory...

Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
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Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
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15 July 2009 • 1 minute read

Breast feeding may alter other women's cycles

by BioNews

Breast feeding mothers may affect the length of other women's menstrual cycles, claims Professor Martha McClintock of the University of Chicago. She found that lactating women can alter the cycle length of other women, perhaps through pheromones, chemical signals emitted by the body. The researchers placed absorbent pads in the...

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