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Driverless cars hold the promise of safer transport. But how should they react when loss of life appears inevitable? Should […]
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Scientists have broken through a technical barrier in human embryo research and now face an ethical one. Two separate studies […]
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Scientists in China have created functioning sperm from mice stem cells in the laboratory. To accomplish this feat, the researchers […]
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A regulatory body in the UK has approved the first research application to use new ‘gene editing’ techniques on human […]
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Nobel prize winner and UK Royal Society Fellow Tim Hunt has caused controversy by saying laboratories should be segregated along gender […]
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A court case is currently underway in which a District Health Board is seeking guardianship of an HIV-positive boy being […]
Continue readingExperimental Ebola treatments – experts respond
The recent treatment of two Ebola-infected US aid workers with experimental medicine has raised questions about whether medicines not proven to be safe […]
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Should we be concerned over the involvement of unconscious patients in medical research in New Zealand? The front page of […]
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A new review of US data has prompted a team of researchers to call on practitioners and policy makers to […]
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