Trainee midwives win maternity pay
Three trainee midwives have won a landmark sex discrimination case establishing rights to maternity pay for thousands of women studying to join the NHS professions.
DNA pioneer accuses Britain over slow pace of stem cell research
James Watson, the biologist who won a Nobel Prize for unravelling the secrets of DNA with Francis Crick in 1953, has launched a scathing attack on Britain for its 'piss poor' approach to stem cell research.
Forget Jamie Oliver. Just use bribery
Jamie Oliver could probably have saved himself a great deal of time and effort if he had only looked at the Scottish method of getting kids to eat more healthily.
A giant step forward for science, but quest for new medical treatments goes on
The Newcastle technique.
Faking babies
Scientists are developing artificial wombs, sperm and eggs - but will this lead to reproduction in a dish? David Adam looks for the first synthetic human.