The failure of rationality
Alok Jha: Government attempts to ban hybrid embryos for stem cell research will hobble our medical future.
Tea tree oil faces ban over health fear
Scientists say even small amounts could provoke rashes and allergies.
How eating fish during pregnancy could make baby brainier. (Just stay off the shark)
· Study of 9,000 families points to value of seafood
· Finding contradicts official advice to limit intake
Scientists reveal how world’s worst flu killed victims
· Immune reaction led to victims drowning in blood · 1918 virus recreation may help avert H5N1 pandemic
Watchdog refuses to allow hybrid embryos
· Researchers must now put case for health benefits · Opponents protest at human-animal creation
Hybrid embryo research is legal, regulator says
The possibility of British scientists creating human-animal embryos for medical research moved a step closer today.
Scientists on a mission to bring cheap drugs to the world’s poorest countries
· Indian trials for low cost hepatitis C treatment · Researchers pioneer 'ethical pharmaceuticals'