Scientists part-funded by the Wellcome Trust have discovered a key link in the chain of events that allows embryonic stem cells to transform into different types of cells in the body.
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August 24th, 2009
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August 24th, 2009
A booklet from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) on end-of-life issues asks its veterans to consider under what circumstances their life might not be ?worth living.? One critic says the booklet is ?guilt inducing? and sends a ?hurry-up-and-die? message, while a U.S. Senator has called for hearings on its contents.
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August 24th, 2009
Stem cell treatment in cancer patients has been greatly improved by the use of a new drug, clinicians have said.
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August 23rd, 2009
British couples who want to choose their babies' sex are being targeted by a new clinic in Manhattan.
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August 23rd, 2009
Traditionalist US Lutherans have warned they might leave to form another denomination after their Church voted to allow gay people to act as pastors.
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August 23rd, 2009
Shelina Janmohamed, author of Love in a Headscarf and the blog Spirit21 looks at the disturbing, related issue of the lack of legal protection for many Muslim women who marry in Britain
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August 23rd, 2009
A year after the worst anti-Christian violence in India?s democratic history, more than 4,000 Christians are reportedly still stuck in squalid refugee camps, too scared to return to their villages.
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August 23rd, 2009
The National Health Service (NHS) in Scotland has spent more than ?1.5m over the past five years on sex-change operations for transsexuals.
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August 22nd, 2009
A Malaysian woman has been sentenced to caning for drinking beer, an offence according to Sharia law. Does that statement shock you? I suspect not. How about this one: she has now requested that Amnesty International stop asking the Malaysian authorities not to cane her, saying she is ready to face the penalty for her ?offence?.
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August 22nd, 2009
A school receptionist suspended after a row over her Christian faith is suing the school, its headmaster and the council for religious discrimination, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.