Senior lecturer in law, Cardiff University
Dr Natasha Hammond-Browning is a senior lecturer in law at Cardiff University who specialises in researching the law, regulation, and ethics of human reproduction and reproductive technologies, currently with a focus on uterus transplants both in the UK and worldwide.
News that a team in the UK has performed the country's first uterus transplant has triggered debate over future criteria for recipients...
Five years ago, on 3 October 2014, the world's first birth following a uterus transplant was announced. Born in Sweden, baby Vincent's arrival made global headlines, and was followed by further births from the Swedish trial...
The news broke on the 4 December 2018 that clinicians had achieved a successful pregnancy and live birth following a uterus transplant from a deceased donor...
Sixteen uterus donations have occurred worldwide, and so far only a research team in Sweden has carried out transplants that successfully produced live births. The Swedish trial involved donations from living persons...
The first US uterus transplant was carried out in February, but before we continue down this route we need to ask whether the risks outweigh the benefits of these procedures...
The recent news that the Health Research Authority has given approval to a UK charity to conduct a clinical trial for womb transplants is seen as welcome news for women without wombs. But when compared to the extensive surgeries required for a womb transplant, is surrogacy not the safer option?...
The issue of creating hybrid embryos for stem cell research was first raised in November 2006 when '...the HFEA received applications from two different research teams for a licence to derive stem cells from human embryos, created from animal eggs instead of human eggs' (1). A public consultation on this...
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