UK Parliament considers law change on single-parent surrogacy
A remedial order has been laid before Parliament which, if passed, will give single people the same rights as couples to become the legal parents of their surrogate-born children...
Legal Editor/Projects Officer
Jen Willows is the Legal Editor at BioNews and Projects Officer at the charity that publishes it, the Progress Educational Trust (PET). Together with her fellow BioNews editors Dr Joanne Delange and Hannah Flynn, she runs the BioNews writing scheme, which provides practical science writing training and experience for PhD students.
Jen originally studied Biology and Microbiology at Imperial College London, and went on to obtain an LLB in Law from Birkbeck University of London and an MA in Medical Ethics and Law from King's College London. She then started working at PET as a Volunteer, and never left. She loves tea and dogs, and she tweets as @jenwillows
by Jen Willows
A remedial order has been laid before Parliament which, if passed, will give single people the same rights as couples to become the legal parents of their surrogate-born children...
by Jen Willows
Of Kith and Kin is a play about surrogacy that seems to have very little to say about surrogacy...
by Jen Willows
A new clinical trial in California marks the first time that genome editing has been used inside the body, rather than on cells such as blood or skin which can be extracted, edited outside the body, and then replaced...
by Jen Willows
NICE has approved a gene therapy for children with a rare disorder that leaves them with no functioning immune system...
by Jen Willows
The Broad Institute has filed arguments ahead of the upcoming CRISPR patent appeal hearing...
by Jen Willows
The US Food and Drug Administration have approved the world’s second gene therapy to target blood cancer...
by Jen Willows
IVF services in Northern Ireland have had a reprieve, but cuts will go ahead in parts of Hertfordshire...
by Jen Willows
The reputation of stem cell research is being undermined by unscrupulous clinics offering unproven therapies, says a report published last week...
by Jen Willows
At the opening of the play, couple Clem and Josh have decided to pursue surrogacy after suffering multiple miscarriages. We find out that the egg will come from a Russian donor, be fertilised with Josh's sperm, and then implanted in an Indian surrogate...
by Jen Willows
A man is being investigated in the Netherlands after claims he fathered over 100 children through sperm donation...
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