States that Germany's Chancellor Gerhard Schroder introduced a national ethics council to
advise the government on ethical issues in biotechnology and genetics. Composition of the …

The US National Institutes of Health have released rules about the use of embryonic stem
cell lines in research funded by the institutes. This follows Barack Obama's decision in …

The abortion issue has figured prominently in the opening weeks of the Bush administration,
with the White House issuing conflicting signs of support to both the anti-abortion, pro-life …

Reports on the development of a system to overcome at least partial HLA disparity in bone
marrow transplantation and thus expand the potential donor pool by overwhelming the …

KIE: By a commanding majority of almost five million votes, this year's Labour Party
conference agreed that Labour Members of Parliament should not be permitted to let their …

Nine months after US President Barack Obama issued an executive order lifting restrictions
on human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research in the United States, scientists can at last …

Haematopoietic stem cell transplantation is a standard currative therapy for some acquired
haematological diseases and inherited metabolical and immunological disorders. HLA …

Action on the bill to increase funding for embryonic stem cell research and to expand the
number of embryonic stem cell lines available seemed to have stalled with only days left …

At the start of 2001, the UK became the first to approve the creation and use of embryos for
stem cell research. In response to a report by the country's Chief Medical Officer, Parliament …

A Swiss couple who travelled to Belgium to get the genetic tests necessary to select an
embryo that could provide their sick 6-year-old son with life-saving umbilical cord blood stem …