In a development that has horrified infertility specialists, a 66 year old entrepreneur is offering the eggs of female models to the highest bidder online. Ron Harris - a former horse breeder, playboy film maker and fashion photographer - has set up a web site (www.ronsangels.com) which launches on 25 November. The...
The Wellcome Trust is to fund a £10m Cancer Genome Project to detect genes that are mutated in human cancers and release that information to a public database. The project will be based at the Sanger Centre near Cambridge which forms a part of the international Human Genome Project - a...
Johns Hopkins researchers have reported the first successful use of gene therapy to activate the human immune system against prostate cancer. The results are published in the October 15 issue of Cancer Research. The Johns Hopkins gene therapy for prostate cancer is tailor-made for patients. The vaccine activates the immune...
Canadian scientists have produced mice with an artificial chromosome that was successfully passed on to their offspring. Reporting in London last week at a conference on biotechnology, the Canadian company responsible, emphasised that they have no intention of repeating the experiment in humans and plans instead to use the technology...
The pharmaceutical giant Glaxo Wellcome announced that it is is close to identifying the human genes that make some people more susceptible to three common illnesses - migraine, adult-onset diabetes and psoriasis. A new approach to gene sequencing called single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) mapping located the predisposition genes far quicker than...
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Eggs for sale
by Juliet Tizzard
We all know you can buy books over the Internet. Some of us order our weekly groceries in this way. But did you know that you can bid for human eggs online, provided by beautiful women? The New York Times described www.ronsangels.com as smacking of 'Darwin-based eugenics, Playboy-style sensibilities and...