Islanders help heart disease researchers
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...
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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...