María Victoria Rivas Llanos was previously a Volunteer Writer at BioNews, having originally joined the publication under the auspices of its writing scheme. She is currently undertaking an internship at the European Patent Office after completing an LLM in Intellectual Property Law at Queen Mary University of London's School of Law. Previously, she studied Law at the University of Granada in Spain.
A new method for prenatal testing for Down's syndrome will be tried out at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH), London....
The Israeli Health Minister, Yael German, has announced the introduction of a new measure to allow unmarried and homosexual men and women access to surrogacy services in the country...
A woman is seeking an extension in the storage of her late husband's sperm at the UK's High Court...
The Personal Genome Project (PGP) was launched in the UK the last November. The project, which was set up in USA in 2005, works on open access of genome sequence information of the 100,000 expected participants...
Severe depression speeds up the ageing process of our cells, researchers have found...
The Florida Supreme Court has recognised the parental rights of non-birth, biological mothers in same-sex relationships, under both the Florida and US constitutions....
Sex selection in IVF as a method of avoiding autism has been approved for the first time by health authorities in Western Australia...
More and more IVF patients are using donor eggs, according to a study carried out in the USA...
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