Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh, US, have identified a small section of DNA, a 'genetic marker', which may point to a significantly increased risk of the development of Alzheimer's disease. Ten years was spent studying 300 relatives of 189 people who had developed the disease. It was found that...
In a report to the House of Lords select committee on stem cell research, the Royal Society has called for a worldwide moratorium on human reproductive cloning. The Society believe that this would be the only way to prevent 'rogue' experimental attempts at cloning babies in other countries where the...
A French woman has given birth to a baby boy at the age of 62, making her the world's third oldest new mother. The baby was conceived using an egg donated from a younger American woman and fertilised with the sperm of the French woman's handicapped brother, aged 52. The...
A draft law banning human cloning in medical research but allowing limited research on left-over or donated embryos was adopted in France last week. The French Prime Minister, Lionel Jospin, had previously backed a proposal to make therapeutic cloning legal, but last week the Conseil d'Etat, one of the three...
The Bush administration indicated its support last week for the more prohibitive of two proposed bills on cloning: the 'Human Cloning Prohibition Act 2001' and the 'Cloning Prohibition Act of 2001'. The intention of both bills is to ban human cloning, but they differ in the extent of their provisions...
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Salomone case is not the tip of the iceberg
by Juliet Tizzard
A rather strange French pair has been dominating the European press over the past week. Their names are Jeanine and Robert Salomone and they have two new babies. But they are not a couple: they are brother and sister. It's not just Jeanine and Robert Salomone's peculiar set up that...