Shared motherhood' couple can both be named on Irish birth certificate
A lesbian couple in Ireland has won the right to be legally recognised as a two-mother family...
Michaela Chen
Michaela Chen is a Volunteer Writer at BioNews and is currently completing her Masters of Law with a Specialism in Human Rights at the London School of Economics. Previously, she was a practicing lawyer in Toronto, Ontario having been called to the bar in 2018. She has a specific interest in the intersections of reproductive justice and international law.
BioNews Articles by Michaela Chen
Women with sickle cell not given adequate information about reproductive health
A knowledge gap may mean that women and girls living with sickle cell disease are not getting the best reproductive healthcare...
Genes drive sexual and reproductive behaviour
The age people have sex for the first time, and become parents for the first time, are partly controlled by their genes, a team at the University of Oxford has shown...
Policymakers advised to address problems with direct-to-consumer genomic testing
The UK Government should review regulation of direct-to-consumer genetic and genomic tests, according to a report by the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee...
Watchdog issues new consumer rights guidance to warn IVF clinics
Newly released guidance from the UK Competition and Markets Authority, would allow couples to initiate legal proceedings against IVF clinics that have falsely guaranteed their success rates...
Image by Bill Sanderson via the Wellcome Collection, © Wellcome Trust Ltd 1990. Depicts Laocoön and his family (from Greek and Roman mythology) entwined in coils of DNA.
Illumina and Roche settle and dismiss patent lawsuits over 'Harmony' tests
A long-running court case over non-invasive prenatal testing patents has been settled...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
Artificial intelligence used in male infertility scoring
Artificial intelligence has been used to evaluate tissue samples in men who produce low levels of, or no, sperm...
Image by Bill Sanderson via the Wellcome Collection, © Wellcome Trust Ltd 1990. Depicts Laocoön and his family (from Greek and Roman mythology) entwined in coils of DNA.
New York legalises commercial surrogacy
New York's new surrogacy law has come into effect, ending a ban on commercial surrogacy in the state.
Image by Peter Artymiuk via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts the shadow of a DNA double helix, on a background that shows the fluorescent banding of the output from a DNA sequencing machine.
Australia announces conscience vote on mitochondrial donation
The Australian Parliament is set to have its first conscience vote on legislation allowing access to mitochondrial donation...
Patient data stolen from a fertility clinic network in the USA
One of the largest networks of fertility clinics in the United States has confirmed that it was targeted by a ransomware attack, resulting in a security breach of patient information...