Our genetic make-up may influence the likelihood of running into debt, UK and US researchers have found, according to the LSE research magazine....
Reprogrammed stem cells could reduce or even eliminate the need for animal testing, according to the scientist who first created them...
Charles Darwin's concerns that his children's ill health was due to his cousin marriage were justified, according to a new study. The UK-Spanish study, which analysed four generations of Darwin's family, provides statistical evidence of a link between ill health and the degree of inbreeding in his and his wife's families....
Certain variations of mitochondrial DNA are protective against strokes, according to a recent study in The Lancet Neurology....
Rising IVF costs may drive up Australian multiple birth rates and put women's health at risk, according to some clinical specialists....
On 6th May 2010, the journal Nature Reviews Neurology published a new report about the future of multiple sclerosis (MS). The guidelines focus on the use of stem cell therapy. They were written by a group of international experts on the disease...
Neanderthals are our closest evolutionary relative, a study published in the journal Science has found...
A clinical trial investigating the treatment of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) using bone marrow stem cells has produced encouraging results, researchers at Bristol University have reported....
I'm going to come clean from the start. My experience of comics is limited to precisely one example: 'Preacher' by Gareth Ennis and Steven Dillon - the story of Reverend Jesse Custer, a beatnik Texan cleric who is accidentally possessed by a supernatural deity during a freak accident. Needless to say, the storyline bears little resemblance to 'Alisa's Tale' - the story of a young woman with a restricted growth condition known as achondroplasia...
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Prenatal effects on sperm production in adult males
by Professor Allan Pacey
Nearly 10 years ago, Professor Niels Skakkebæk from the Copenhagen University Hospital, published details of a new syndrome to account for the apparent increase in problems related to the male reproductive system that had been documented in many countries...
Meeting demand for human tissue: should we even try?
by Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern
'Been there, sperm donated and got the t-shirt'. 'Be an organ donor, get a free funeral!' 'Hey mister, wanna buy a kidney?' These were just some of the UK and international headlines reporting on the launch last week of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics' consultation on donation of human bodily material for medical treatment and research...