Monthly Archives: February 2015
‘I have a constant burning sensation down through my leg and foot’: The amputees in agony from limbs no longer there
The Daily Mail 23 February 2015 Two weeks after her 41st birthday, Sue Cook’s life changed for ever. She was on a pheasant shoot when she was injured in a freak accident. A woman standing near her failed to unload the unused cartridges in her gun. As she put it away, both barrels went off. […]
Cell breakthrough to bring two-dad babies
The Sunday Times 22 February 2015 SCIENTISTS have shown for the first time that it is possible to make human egg and sperm cells using skin from two adults of the same sex. The breakthrough raises the prospect of the first fully “manufactured” baby made in a laboratory dish from the skin cells of two […]