US Congress lawmaker resigns amid surrogacy scandal
Congressman Trent Franks has resigned from the US House of Representatives, following claims of misconduct related to pursuing a surrogacy arrangement with a former staffer...
Sean Byrne is a former Volunteer Writer at BioNews, having originally joined the publication under the auspices of its writing scheme. He is currently studying for a PhD in Bioethics and Medical Jurisprudence at the University of Manchester. His research looks at the relationship between bioethics and legal frameworks, and their application to synthetic biology. Previously, he completed an LLM in Medical Law at Queen Mary University of London and a BCL in Law and Society at Dublin City University's School of Law and Government.
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Congressman Trent Franks has resigned from the US House of Representatives, following claims of misconduct related to pursuing a surrogacy arrangement with a former staffer...
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A woman has been denied legal parenthood of her surrogate-born child because she is single, despite being the genetic mother...
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A recent Wall Street Journal article, 'DIY Gene Editing: Fast, Cheap – and Worrisome', describes the Saturday afternoon of teenager, Kian Sadeghi, as he learns to use CRISPR/Cas9 at the Genspace Community Lab in Brooklyn, New York. Like many news ar
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The Irish Minister for Health, Leo Varadkar, has announced there will be new draft legislation to regulate surrogacy in Ireland — five months after surrogacy provisions proposed in January last year were dropped from a Bill currently before the Oireachtas...
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Do you really want to know? This was the question presented in the award-winning documentary of the same title, and to the panel in a discussion that followed its recent screening by Genetic Alliance UK...
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Surrogacy has always posed serious legal and ethical questions of society, and will continue to do so for a while yet...
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Pfizer has entered into a deal with biotech company Spark Therapeutics to conduct research into gene therapy for haemophilia B...
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A gene variant has been linked to a lower risk of the most common cause of stroke in people under 50...
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The NHS Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group has agreed to fund one cycle of IVF, having at one time been the only CCG not to offer the treatment at all after funding was suspended in 2010....
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Scientists are still searching for a key piece of the longevity puzzle, having not found anything remarkable in the genes of 'supercentenarians' - people who live beyond 110 - to explain their long lives...
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