A US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing was held last week, convened by Senator Orrin Hatch, co-sponsor of a bill that would allow the creation of cloned human embryos for the derivation of stem cells to be used in medical research, but would ban human reproductive cloning. The hearing was held...
Evidence of cloned human babies will be presented to the world this week, claimed Brigitte Boisselier, president of Clonaid, at a news conference held in Israel last weekend. Clonaid announced the birth of the first cloned human baby just after Christmas last year. 'Eve' was said to have been born...
Two new studies have shown that alterations in a single gene are associated with severe obesity and 'binge-eating' behaviour in some people. A team at Cambridge University in the UK found that around five or six per cent of severely obese people studied inherited a particular version of a gene...
The effects of an advertising campaign for an inherited breast cancer test are to be investigated by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reports last week's Nature. The adverts, for a test manufactured by biotechnology firm Myriad Genetics, were featured on television, radio and in magazines from...
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BioNews: bigger and better
by Juliet Tizzard
Welcome to the 200th issue of BioNews. In our first issue, published on 22 March 1999, we outlined our intention to keep you up to date on developments in assisted reproduction and human genetics and to provide you with a range of views on controversial issues in the field. On...