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  • Article · 2008

    Humanised pork chops, scorpion poison salad and rubber tomatos

    Human genes for breakfast? You may one day be eating steak, chicken, pork or lamb made from human and animal genes.

    11 September 2008
  • Article · 2008

    Monarch Butterfly deaths from GM pollen

    Monarch butterlies may be threatened by pollen from genetically modified maize. That's the conclusion of a new Monarch Butterfly survival s…

    11 September 2008
  • Article · 2008

    Monkey head transplant

    Head transplants in monkeys, headless frog, cloned sheep, designer humans - yes everything is different now - Video (1997) Head transplants…

    11 September 2008
  • Article · 2008

    New genes: new hope or future disaster?

    Never in the history of the human race has science given us so much power to alter our destiny. The genetic revolution allows us to create …

    11 September 2008
  • Article · 2008

    New hope for multiple sclerosis

    Interferon b helps Multiple Sclerosis. Natalizumab slows down MS attacks Interferon b treatment helps multiple sclerosis recovery and survi…

    11 September 2008
  • Article · 2008

    Please, please clone ME!!

    Letters on Human Cloning to Dr Patrick Dixon - and video-replies (1998). Here are a few of many e-mails received on human cloning, mainly f…

    11 September 2008
  • Article · 2008

    Press release on launch of The Genetic Revolution

    "We urgently need gene technology to cure diseases like AIDS and cystic fibrosis, and to feed the world, but we do need to ask what kind of…

    11 September 2008
  • Video · 2008

    Reasons Against Cloning

    Human cloning: who is cloning humans and arguments against cloning How human clones are being made - for medical research.

    11 September 2008
  • Article · 2008

    Rheumatoid Arthritis Wonder-drug?

    Miracle claims are being made for a new treatment for rheumatoid arthritis which stops the immune system attacking joints.

    11 September 2008
  • Article · 2008

    Rheumatoid Arthritis Wonder-drug?

    Miracle claims are being made (November 2000) for a new treatment for rheumatoid arthritis which stops the immune system attacking joints.

    11 September 2008
  • Video · 2008

    SARS: global epidemic from mutant virus causing pneumonia

    Reminder of the 1918-1919 flu epidemic which killed 30 million. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome - Symptoms and Survival.

    11 September 2008
  • Video · 2008

    Scorpion poison genes added to cabbages kill caterpillers

    Frankenstein goes shopping. Designer food - Co-op food retailing group announced a ban on selling beef, pork or other meat with added human…

    11 September 2008

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