A study has shown that current standards used as indicators of male infertility may be wrong, meaning that some men may have been inaccurately diagnosed. US scientists have suggested new thresholds for sperm counts and motility analysis that currently distinguish fertile and infertile men. The new thresholds would both raise...
Severino Antinori has voiced his intentions to clone humans in the UK in a letter to a Scottish newspaper. He said that he wanted to work in this country because many of the world's fertility and cloning experts are based here. Antinori told the newspaper that he and his colleague...
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has announced a long-awaited registry of human embryonic stem cells available to scientists and the public. The registry lists 72 lines that meet the eligibility criteria set by President Bush. Some of the 72 lines are sub-clones of lines that were previously identified...
Research has been published which suggests that there may be a genetic link to intelligence. The research, published in Nature Neuroscience, shows that the size of certain regions of the brain is genetically controlled and that there is a relationship between this size and intelligence. Using magnetic resonance imaging, Dr...
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European Parliament threatens embryo stem cell research
by Juliet Tizzard
Since the beginning of 2001, a temporary committee at the European Parliament has been considering the issue of human genetics and other new technologies of modern medicine. Although the committee considered many different issues, it is that of cloning and stem cell research which seems to have been most controversial...