Vatican cancels stem cell research conference
The Vatican has cancelled a stem cell research conference scheduled to take place next month, citing a lack of participants...
Jessica Ware was previously a Volunteer Writer at BioNews and is a news reporter by trade, writing for publications including the Independent and the foreign desk of The Times. As a languages buff, she tends to write about stories from Europe and human interest stories. She has worked in Berlin for an English language news service and for the BBC, and she has an MA in Newspaper Journalism from City University London.
by Jess Ware
The Vatican has cancelled a stem cell research conference scheduled to take place next month, citing a lack of participants...
by Jess Ware
A US scheme that promotes the 'adoption' of embryos produced during IVF but not implanted is likely to have its government funding withdrawn in the next financial year...
by Jess Ware
Collecting DNA samples from adults arrested in California will remain legal, after a federal appeals court ruled last Thursday that Proposition 69, the measure behind the practice, was lawful....
by Jess Ware
The Welsh NHS has drawn criticism over its plan to open a new IVF clinic to replace one which is privately run. The new centre will cost £1.5 million and has sparked debate about the Welsh government's policy to not use the private sector in health care...
by Jess Ware
The number of publicly funded IVF cycles dropped by nearly 14 percent this financial year in the UK, an investigation by the GP magazine Pulse has revealed...
by Jess Ware
A fertility clinic in Kent is under investigation after reports that staff may have lost a woman's embryos. Alison Austin-Hennessy, 31, said she and her husband Michael were informed by a consultant at the private Chaucer Hospital that their embryos had been misplaced....
by Jess Ware
A man is suing a US fertility clinic in negligence for 'mental and economic injuries' after alleging it used his 'stolen' sperm to impregnate his girlfriend without his consent....
by Jess Ware
IVF using donated egg or sperm other than from a spouse will remain banned in Austria. This was the final decision made by the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (the Court) on 3 November in the closing of the case SH and others v Austria....
by Jess Ware
Google has joined forces with Californian start-up company, DNAnexus, to maintain a public DNA database online. The move follows an announcement by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) that it may have to withdraw funding from the current public database, the Sequence Read Archive (SRA), due to funding cuts....
by Jess Ware
A US doctor accused of implanting stem cells into chronically ill patients pleaded not guilty at a court hearing on Thursday 13 October. Dr Ralph Conti, of Henderson, Nevada, has been accused of transplanting stem cells harvested from placental tissue into patients, at the direction of Alfred Sapse, who was falsely claiming to be a doctor....
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