Large bank of human stem cell lines made in Europe
One of the world's largest sets of human stem cell lines from healthy people was unveiled last week...
One of the world's largest sets of human stem cell lines from healthy people was unveiled last week...
Scientists have shown how a gene and protein cause greying and hair loss in mice...
Breathing air containing about half the usual percentage of oxygen can reverse mitochondrial disease in mice...
Cancer-related mutations have been found in tissue taken from patients with deep endometriosis...
A judge in Knox County, Tennessee, has granted a divorced woman the same legal rights as a husband over a child conceived through donor insemination...
The first batch of baby brain scans was released last week by a landmark UK project to map how the human brain develops in unprecedented detail...
A hospital in India is preparing this week to conduct the country’s first ever womb transplant...
by Fiona Duffy
When I was first asked to review this book, written by Fiona Whyte and Sean Malone, I can’t say that I was full of enthusiasm at the prospect. I had seen the television documentary, heard some of the radio interviews and the ensuing long discussions co
by Rachel Siden
Experiments in Democracy recounts the history of human embryo research debates in the United States while exploring how the democratic formulation of policy is impacted by complex relationships between science, bioethics, and the public...
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Walking on eggshells? The morally complex practice of egg sharing
by Professor Nicky Hudson
BioNews recently reported on the Daily Mail investigation of a so-called 'cash for eggs' scandal which suggested women on low incomes are induced to provide eggs for use in the fertility treatment of others. The coverage, which prompting swift responses f
Donor children do not benefit from being told about their conception
by Professor Guido Pennings
For some years now, counsellors and psychologists have been spreading the message that it's in the best interest of children to know if they are donor conceived. However, my recent literature review has shown that there is in fact very little empirical ev
A strong and stable BioNews, or a coalition of chaos?
by Sarah Norcross
BioNews is publishing its 900th edition today...