Rachel Siden is a Volunteer Writer at BioNews. She originally studied Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and went on to obtain an MA in Bioethics and Society from King's College London, where her research focused on the ethics of compulsory vaccine laws in the USA. Her current research interests are ethical issues surrounding genome editing and genomic medicine, which she writes about on her blog The CRISPR Drawer.
The US Supreme Court has overturned the landmark Roe v Wade decision, which could affect the provision of IVF in some states...
Professor Richard Lewontin, renowned geneticist and evolutionary biologist, has died at the age of 92...
The first trial over a California fertility clinic's cryogenic tank failure concluded by awarding $15 million to five plaintiffs...
A new genome editing approach may be faster and simpler than CRISPR...
Fertility treatments for 33 patients have been postponed at Belfast's Regional Fertility Centre due to COVID-19...
A British court is considering a claim to release a deceased patient's fertility clinic records to their heirs...
A large-scale US study on male fertility has shown that taking zinc and folic acid supplements do not increase the health of sperm or rate of pregnancy...
Following the viral Facebook post of an Egyptian woman who announced that she had frozen her eggs, Egypt's Islamic legislature Dar Al-Ifta announced that egg freezing is permissible within Islam under certain conditions...
California has passed the first-ever bill regulating genome editing technology that targets do-it-yourself CRISPR kits...
A new report has called for genome sequencing to be trialled alongside the nine tests that currently comprise newborn screening in the UK...
