Judge freezes surrogacy company's accounts as FBI investigates
A Texas judge has frozen the assets of a company holding surrogacy payments, while the FBI conduct an investigation...
Blair Sowry
Blair Sowry is a Volunteer Writer at BioNews. He has been working as an embryologist in the UK for nine years, following working in New Zealand for two years and completing his training. Blair has now decided on a career change to the legal profession and recently completed a Graduate Diploma of Law.
BioNews Articles by Blair Sowry
Texas Supreme Court may decide fate of embryos in divorce case
The Supreme Court of Texas is deciding whether to hear a case which could have major implications for IVF treatment in the state...
Image by Peter Artymiuk via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts the shadow of a DNA double helix, on a background that shows the fluorescent banding of the output from a DNA sequencing machine.
Inaccurate finger-prick prenatal paternity tests sold in Canada
A Canadian DNA testing company sold prenatal paternity tests to customers knowing the results were inaccurate, an investigation revealed...
Image by Bill Sanderson via the Wellcome Collection, © Wellcome Trust Ltd 1990. Depicts Laocoön and his family (from Greek and Roman mythology) entwined in coils of DNA.
Alabama Supreme Court ruling classes frozen embryos as children
The Alabama Supreme Court has declared that frozen embryos have the same legal status as children in the state...
Donor-conceived offspring of fertility doctor had relationship unwittingly
A Connecticut woman discovered that her ex-boyfriend is her half-brother, after it transpired a fertility doctor used his own sperm in her mother's treatment...
FDA approves at-home insemination kit
An intravaginal insemination device has become the first of its kind to receive US Food and Drug Administration clearance...
HIV-positive partner gamete 'donation' ban to be lifted
The UK government has committed to changing laws which prevent same-sex couples affected by HIV from accessing fertility treatment...
Image by Bill Sanderson via the Wellcome Collection, © Wellcome Trust Ltd 1990. Depicts Laocoön and his family (from Greek and Roman mythology) entwined in coils of DNA.
Alabama Supreme Court discusses legal status of embryos
An appeal considered by the Alabama Supreme Court has questioned why the accidental destruction of embryos does not constitute wrongful death...
US couple unable to bring surrogate-born baby back from Mexico
A New Jersey couple whose son was born via surrogacy in Mexico, has been unable to return with him to the USA...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
New Zealand fertility clinic loses cancer survivor's sperm
A New Zealand fertility clinic has been criticised by the Health and Disability Commissioner, after losing cancer patient's frozen sperm...
