Book Review: The Seventh Son
The latest novel by Sebastian Faulks is a thriller revolving around a billionaire entrepreneur who plans to stretch the boundaries of ethics...
Susan Tranfield-Thomas is a Volunteer Writer for BioNews. She is a teacher and founder member of Daisy Network.
The latest novel by Sebastian Faulks is a thriller revolving around a billionaire entrepreneur who plans to stretch the boundaries of ethics...
Susan Tranfield-Thomas returns to review the second series of Danish detective series 'DNA'...
This short, illustrated children's book follows the story of a child's life from where she started – her mums' hearts. Through adventures, friendship and love, her parents learned a bigger way to think about family...
Petra Nordqvist and Lea Gillman's latest book 'Donors: Curious Connections in Donor Conception?' is reviewed by Susan Tranfield-Thomas teacher and founder member of Daisy Network...
This Half of Us episode allows for a wide exploration of the problems arising from trans-racial donor conception and gives guests ample time to tell their stories...
'I walk around, and I could be related to anyone' says Jacoba Ballard, a donor-conceived adult, of her neighbourhood in Indianapolis...
Such was the excitement and anticipation around the pioneering procedure of IVF and the work of embryologist Professor Sir Robert Edwards, gynaecologist Patrick Steptoe and embryologist and nurse Jean Purdy, that Louise Brown's birth was treated as a sensational scientific advance in 1978…
Fertility Issues is one of a series of educational booklets from Independence Educational Publishers, aimed at children aged over 11 in key stages 3, 4, and above, which aims to present and explore contemporary social issues in an unbiased way...
Written by Luke and Kelly Jackson, 'Two-Week Wait' is a story about IVF that anyone with experience of the treatment can identify with...
'Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?' wrote Christopher Marlow in 1598. Since the ancient Greeks described the exquisite pain of instant passion through the metaphorical sting of Cupid's arrow, humans have embraced the notion of some magical alchemy that makes us fall helplessly for our one 'true' love...
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