French surrogate in court for defrauding couple
A woman is on trial in France on charges of defrauding two same-sex couples who had hired her as a 'surrogate'...
Ana Ilic
Ana Ilic was previously a Volunteer Writer at BioNews.
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Nepalese court suspends commercial surrogacy
An injunction has been issued in Nepal to stop women from carrying surrogate pregnancies on behalf of foreigners...
German grandmother, 65, gives birth to quadruplets
A grandmother of seven has become the oldest woman to give birth to quadruplets, at the age of 65...
Same-sex couple awarded care of child in surrogacy dispute
A legal battle over the custody of a baby girl born through a disputed surrogacy arrangement has resulted in an order to remove the child from her mother and place her into the care of her father and his partner....
Europe's first marketing approval for stem cell product granted
The European Commission has given conditional marketing approval to a stem-cell-based therapy for the first time...
No more empty pates: stem cell therapy for baldness
Stem cells have been used to induce human hair growth in mice, in a US study. The researchers say their work could represent the first step in creating a cell-based treatment for male pattern baldness, or androgenetic alopecia, which affects almost half of all men by the age of 50...