Screening donors: New challenges in the UK fertility landscape
Screening gamete donors could reduce transmission of recessive genetic conditions, but also gives rise to new and ethically sensitive questions for recipients, clinicians and donors...
Research Fellow
Dr Kriss Fearon is a research fellow at the Centre for Reproduction Research, De Montfort University, Leicester. She is currently working on the PRECAS Project. Her research interests are infertility, reproductive timing, and reproductive decision making in the context of chromosome disorders.
by Professor Cathy Herbrand and 2 others
Screening gamete donors could reduce transmission of recessive genetic conditions, but also gives rise to new and ethically sensitive questions for recipients, clinicians and donors...
The widespread availability of home DNA testing has revealed a disturbing trend in cases of fertility fraud, where fertility doctors use their own sperm for donor inseminations instead of sperm from the partner or a donor...
The opening of the The Centre for Reproduction Research at De Montfort University on 24 March 2017 was marked through an afternoon seminar of short lectures by three leading scholars: Emily Jackson, professor of law at London School of Economics, Maureen
A couple whose daughter died of cancer, leaving frozen eggs in storage, has recently won the right to have their request for export reconsidered by the HFEA. There are a number of troubling features of the case which deserve proper scrutiny...
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Some of the most persuasive advocates for egg and sperm donation are donors. We become donors because we care about others and are proud of our decision to help infertile people build families. But donors' voices are seldom heard and it's too easy to overlook the impact of our experiences on donor recruitment...
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