SIR—Giuseppe Burgio and colleagues (May 17, p 1482) 1 discuss the ethical issues
involved in the deliberate conception of a child to provide a match for a sibling, and the …

In “Storage of Newborn Stem Cells for Future Use"(osrEr cyNEcoL 199789300–3), Wiley
and Kuller dis-cuss the inherent value of umbilical cord blood and its use in stem cell …

A much anticipated registry of human embryonic stem cells should finally be made available
to scientists and the public within the next week, the US National Institutes of Health has …

The haemopoietic system is a dynamic and self-renewing hierarchy of cells. The constant
production of blood cells occurs through a series of differentiation steps, with terminally …

falling behind was heightened last month when South Korean scientists made history when
they reported they had cloned a human embryonic stem-cell line using a technique called …

Peopled with quirky characters and crowded with strange and beautiful places, Cell of Cells
reads like the best travel writing, but the author doesn't stint on the science, or the politics, of …

States that the United Kingdom's (UK) parliamentary committee on science and technology
heard evidence in March 1997 in an effort to determine whether the 1990 Human …

'Manchester welcomes the opportunity to host this landmark project to determine the
contributions of both nature and nurture to human health', commented Bill Ollier, professor in …

Sir—In his commentary (Feb 3, p 329) 1 Neil Scolding focused on the scientific aspects of
the cloning for stem-cell research of embryos obtained by somatic-cell nuclear transfer …

Context The genetic code in the DNA of virtually every somatic cell can produce the entire
complement of encoded proteins. Acetylation of histones and methylation of histones and …