Freezer-failure embryos were people, claim parents
An Ohio couple are continuing their legal fight to have their lost embryos declared to have the same legal status as people...
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
An Ohio couple are continuing their legal fight to have their lost embryos declared to have the same legal status as people...
by Jen Willows
Members of Israel's LGBT community went on strike on Sunday to protest new surrogacy laws that exclude gay fathers...
by Jen Willows
Cancer cells may be edited to attack tumours according to new research published in Science Translational Medicine...
by Jen Willows
A US sperm donor who has already fathered over 30 children has been prevented from impregnating women in Israel...
by Jen Willows
Three scientists will share the US$1 million 2018 Kavli prize in Nanoscience 'for the invention of CRISPR-Cas9, a precise nanotool for editing DNA, causing a revolution in biology, agriculture, and medicine'...
by Jen Willows
A bill has been introduced into the US Senate and House of Representatives, which, if passed, would significantly widen access to fertility treatment.
by Jen Willows
A German man has been told that he must pay child support for his son, who was born after his ex-wife forged his signature to become pregnant using their frozen embryos...
by Jen Willows
The strict laws on assisted reproduction in Malta are set to be liberalised in a bill put forward in Parliament this month, although embryo destruction will remain illegal...
by Jen Willows
The Progress Educational Trust event 'Putting Your Genome to Work: For the NHS, for Industry, for the UK Post-Brexit' took place at Amnesty International in London on 21 March 2018...
by Jen Willows
A second US fertility clinic has reported a malfunction of a tank used to store frozen eggs and embryos...
BioNews, published by the Progress Educational Trust (PET), provides news and comment on genetics, assisted conception, embryo/stem cell research and related areas.