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by Richard Hayes, Science Progress
The international community is developing policies that support embryonic stem cell research and embryo screening for medical purposes, but oppose human reproductive cloning, embryo screening for non-medical purposes, and genetic "enhancement."
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by Jesse Reynolds, Biopolitical Times
Does Green's new-found moderation on stem cells represent a change in his perspective, or a shift to accommodate the changed political landscape, or something else?
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by Jesse Reynolds, Biopolitical Times
Singapore is considering permitting financial compensation to donors of eggs for research and to kidney donors, but asserts that the amounts will not be large enough to act as an inducement.
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by Marcy Darnovsky, Biopolitical Times
Should children conceived with third-party gametes have the right to learn their biological parents’ identities and medical histories?
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by Marcy Darnovsky, Biopolitical Times
Two commentaries explain how we can – and should – take prenatal genetic selection out of the abortion debate.
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by Jesse Reynolds, Biopolitical Times
Instead of steps towards cellular therapy, stem cells are being used to test drugs.
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by Jenny Hope, Daily Mail (UK)
Fertility doctors are doubling the pregnancy rate for childless women using a 'kinder' form of treatment.
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by John Lauerman, Bloomberg Press
DeCode Genetics Inc.'s chief executive officer made good on a promise to create new ways to identify disease-linked genes. Now his company is struggling to survive after taking too long to convert its many discoveries into profit.
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Agence France Presse
aboratories have for the first time sequenced the full genetic code of an African and an Asian.
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by Richard Alleyne, Telegraph
Stem cells taken from human embryos were used to form tissues of the cerebral cortex, the supreme control tower of the brain which is involved in thinking and motion.
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CNN
Scientists have produced clones of mice that have been dead and frozen for 16 years.
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