Monday, November 7th, 2011
Fertilized eggs could be granted human rights, depending on how Mississippi voters cast their ballots Tuesday on Initiative 26, otherwise known as the "personhood" amendment. The polls say the anti-abortion referendum is likely to pass. It shouldn’t, writes bioethicist Art Caplan.
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Monday, November 7th, 2011
Most human populations are the product of a series of range expansions having occurred since modern humans left Africa some 50,000 years ago to colonize the rest of the world, but how have these processes influenced today's population diversity? An international research team led by Damian Labuda at the University ...
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
The European Union (EU) Court of Justice ruled today that any process that removes stem cells from a human embryo where it entails the destruction of that embryo cannot be patented. The ruling has led to speculation that it will hamper the development of therapeutic stem cells ...
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Monday, October 17th, 2011
This research, published on the Nature review website, provides evidence of a major concept could pave the way for the future use of these stem cells to treat humans, through perspective gene therapies. For several years now, scientists have been able to produce cells with stem cell properties, by using ...
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Tuesday, October 11th, 2011
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine say that losing the ability to make a particular kind of sugar molecule boosted disease protection in early hominids, and may have directed the evolutionary emergence of our ancestors, the genus Homo...
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