Actress Sofia Vergara to be sued 'by her own embryos'
Star of the US TV show 'Modern Family', Sofia Vergara, is facing a lawsuit in the state of Louisiana that lists her own frozen embryos among the plaintiffs...
Chee Hoe Low was previously a Volunteer Writer at BioNews, having originally joined the publication under the auspices of its writing scheme. He is currently undergoing a pupillage in a medical law firm in Malaysia. Previously he obtained an LLM in Medical Law at Queen Mary University of London and studied Law at the University of Leeds. He went on to complete the Bar Professional Training Course at Northumbria University, and was called to the bar by the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple. His area of interest includes clinical malpractice and mental health law, particularly in the Court of Protection.
by Chee Hoe Low
Star of the US TV show 'Modern Family', Sofia Vergara, is facing a lawsuit in the state of Louisiana that lists her own frozen embryos among the plaintiffs...
by Chee Hoe Low
A former MIT visiting student who worked in the Zhang lab for nine months in 2011 has claimed that patents over the CRISPR genome-editing technology were 'mis-patented'...
by Chee Hoe Low
The parents of a dead Australian man whose sperm has been cryopreserved have said that they will block any attempts by his fiancée to use his sperm in an IVF attempt...
by Chee Hoe Low
A settlement has been reached between parties of a class-action lawsuit regarding compensation paid to egg donors in the USA...
by Chee Hoe Low
A UK High Court judge has ordered that the biological father of a teenage girl can maintain indirect contact with her, despite her opposition...
by Chee Hoe Low
A company that conducted genetic tests on its employees for a disciplinary investigation violated US genetic anti-discrimination law, an Atlanta judge has ruled...
by Chee Hoe Low
A lecturer from London has been awarded nearly £40,000 in damages after his businesswoman ex-wife deceived him for over six years into believing that he was the biological father of her IVF-born son...
by Chee Hoe Low
A same-sex couple from New Jersey, USA, is challenging a sperm donor's visiting rights over their son conceived by artificial insemination...
by Chee Hoe Low
A baby has been born with a genetic condition after a laboratory used by a Nottingham fertility clinic reportedly made a mistake interpreting PGD results...
by Chee Hoe Low
A six-year legal battle for contact over two girls conceived via known-donor fertilisation has had a 'destructive effect' on the girls' childhood, a High Court judge has warned in his third substantive judgment in the case....
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