Scientists to lobby the UN on cloning
A number of scientists and others will lobby members of the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) at a scientific conference on Wednesday, in favour of human cloning for embryonic stem (ES) cell research. They hope to break a 'diplomatic deadlock' over whether an international treaty banning human reproductive...
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Banking on frozen sperm
by Dr Jess Buxton
Last week's news that a healthy baby boy was conceived using sperm frozen 21 years earlier triggered a flurry of front page news stories. Rather confusingly, several referred to the infant, born in 2002, as the '21-year-old baby', with one newspaper cartoon showing a newborn baby setting off for...