Judge criticises clinic's 'seriously deficient' care of couple after clerical blunder
A clerical mistake at a Sheffield IVF clinic meant that a father's status as his child's legal parent was put in doubt...
Cait McDonagh
Cait McDonagh is a former Volunteer Writer at BioNews and a Volunteer at the charity that publishes it, the Progress Educational Trust (PET). She is also a Development Editor at Brierley Price Prior. Previously, she studied Law at the University of Kent, where she also volunteered for the Kent Law Clinic. Her dissertation for her Medical Law and Ethics LLM focused on public health services, childcare and relationships with the state. She has a particular interest in the regulation of new reproductive therapies, and the storage and use of genetic materials.
BioNews Articles by Cait McDonagh
Editas goes public despite CRISPR patent battle
A biotechnology company co-founded by two leading scientists involved in developing the genome-editing technology, CRISPR/Cas9, has gone public, raising over $94 million in its initial share offering...
US TV star must remain legal parent to child born via surrogacy
An appeals court in Pennsylvania, USA, has ruled that a woman is to remain the legal parent of a child born through surrogacy, despite separating from her husband before the child was born...
BRCA gene cannot be patented, says Australia's High Court
An isolated gene sequence cannot be patented, Australia's highest court has unanimously ruled. It is the latest and final decision in litigation that has lasted over five years...
US Congress moves to block embryo editing
The US Congress has released a bill that would prohibit the Food and Drug Administration from spending any money in relation to projects that involve editing the human genome...
Myriad Genetics settles with BRCA test competitors
Myriad Genetics has settled litigation with competitors who had been using genetic testing for breast cancer genes...
Do Genes Matter? Families and Donor Conception
Since 1991, more than 35,000 children have been born in the UK as a result of donor conception, and our knowledge of genetics has increased substantially during that time. The event 'Do Genes Matter? Families and Donor Conception' set out to ask whether our understanding of family has changed too...
Chemotherapy patient challenges NHS fertility preservation funding refusal
A Crohn's disease patient is challenging a decision to refuse her funding for her eggs to be cryopreserved before she undergoes a bone marrow transplant and chemotherapy...
'Genetically-guided' supplements company settles after Federal Trade Commission lawsuit
A biotechnology company that produces genetically customised nutritional supplements has settled charges of deceptive advertising with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over claims that its products could treat a number of ailments and diseases...
Lesbian couple sue hospital after being 'refused IVF'
Two women claim to have been refused IVF treatment on the NHS at St Mary's Hospital in Manchester on the basis of their sexuality...