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. City breaks from Chinese state policy of 30 years. Lack of younger workers to support ageing populationShanghai authorities are urging eligible couples to have a second baby, after years of following a one-child policy, amid concerns about a lack of young workers to support its ageing population.Family planning officials will make home visits and offer financial advice to those wanting a second child, in a dramatic shift away from the 30-year priority of simply keeping the population down.'We just hope more people can have a second child because for Shanghai, as a city which started family planning quite early, the process of ageing is fast,' said Zhang Meixin of the Shanghai population and family planning commission.He said the authorities would not introduce new policies as such and stressed that the nationwide rules still stood. Officials have long feared that China cannot support a rising population - already over 1.3 billion and not expected to peak until it reaches 1.5 billion

InfiniteZero writes 'According to this WSJ story, 'Two teams of Chinese researchers working separately have reprogrammed mature skin cells of mice to an embryonic-like state and used the resulting cells to create live mouse offspring. The reprogramming may bring scientists one step closer to creating medically useful stem-cell lines for treating human disease without having to resort to controversial laboratory techniques. However, the advance poses fresh ethical challenges because the results could make it easier to create human clones and babies with specific genetic traits.'' of this story at Slashdot.

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