Mexico bans surrogacy for gay couples and foreigners
The legislature in the Mexican state of Tabasco has voted to prevent foreign couples and gay men from having children via surrogacy...
Ayala Ochert was previously Science Editor at BioNews and at the charity that publishes it, the Progress Educational Trust (PET). She is currently a freelance science journalist, and has written for publications including Nature, New Scientist, Discover, the Independent and the Times Higher Education Supplement. Previously she was Editor of Interactions, the member newspaper of the Institute of Physics. She has also worked as Associate Editor of California Monthly, the alumni magazine of the University of California, Berkeley. She has a diverse range of interests, has written on subjects ranging from anthropology to zoology, and is currently writing a book on the science of breastmilk.
by Ayala Ochert
The legislature in the Mexican state of Tabasco has voted to prevent foreign couples and gay men from having children via surrogacy...
by Ayala Ochert
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Using 'gene drive' technology, scientists have created mosquitoes with malaria-resistant genes that could spread rapidly into wild mosquito populations, potentially wiping out the disease in some areas...
by Ayala Ochert
Scientists say it may be possible to track the progress of cancer — and cancer treatment — in real time from fragments of tumour DNA that are shed into the bloodstream...
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A year after it opened, the UK's national sperm bank has only nine registered donors, says its chief executive Laura Witjens, who is planning a major new recruitment drive at the end of this month...
by Ayala Ochert
Dr Howard W. Jones, a pioneer of IVF in the United States, has died at the age of 104...
by Ayala Ochert
Two women in Japan have received eggs from donors who are strangers — the first time this has happened in the country, following approval by an ethics committee earlier this year...
by Ayala Ochert
A study mimicking the effects of shift work has found that just one night without sleep alters the expression of bodyclock genes and disrupts metabolism...
by Ayala Ochert
Scientists have grown miniature brains out of stem cells from people with autism, and have found that they over-produce one type of neuron...
by Ayala Ochert
The rate of ectopic pregnancies in the UK following assisted reproduction has almost halved in the past 12 years, according to a new analysis...
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