Philip Ball writes on an important contribution to the discussion on the twilit zone between human embryo models and actual human...

"Synthetic Embryos" are neither Synthetic nor Embryos. So why are editors giving that name to stem cell-based models of human...

This week a project was launched to develop the first governance framework for research involving stem cell-based embryo models (SCBEMs)...

Julian Hitchcock argues that self-regulation may be the best way of regulating the creation and use of models of human embryos that have...

On 27 April, the Progress Educational Trust (PET), a charity with the aim of advancing the public understanding of science, law and...

This is a significant paper, not only for the reasons stated in the Discussion, but because of its potential (which the authors do not...