Bringing you PET events as a podcast. In the 27th episode of its podcast, PET begins a two-part discussion of assisted conception in relation to falling birthrates, with Professor Geeta Nargund, Professor Bart Fauser, Dr Chris Skedgel and Dr Paul Morland...
This film features the medical pioneers responsible for the world's first live birth following a uterus transplant (in 2014), and for the UK's first live birth following a uterus transplant (in 2025)...
Five experts discuss the role of government-funded fertility treatment in addressing the population decline and more. This PET event complements the earlier event 'Is Fertility Treatment a Solution to Population Decline?'...
We argue that this latest episode in the 23andMe saga illustrates that the current regulatory status quo pertaining to donor anonymity in the UK renders members of the donor conceived community particularly vulnerable to harms associated with the (mis)use of their DNA data...
Following the death of Alessandro Coatti – an expert in science and policy aspects of genome editing, who was much loved by his friends and colleagues – Sandy Starr and Sophia McCully pay tribute...
This film documents a discussion between author and journalist Anna Louie Sussman and bioethicists Insoo Hyun and Vardit Ravitsky, exploring issues raised by Sussman's New York Times series 'The Embryo Question'...
'Established in 2007, in a gale of publicity, 23andMe benefitted from the valetudinarian personal genetic healthcare imaginary that appeared in the wake of the Human Genome Project,' writes Dr Pete Mills, as he documents the rise and fall of 23andMe...
Kevin McConway, emeritus professor of applied statistics at the Open University, comments on the recent findings published in Nature Medicine aiming to quantify the contributions of genetics and environmental factors in ageing and mortality...
Janric Craig, third Viscount Craigavon, died on 31 March 2025. He was a founding trustee of the Progress Educational Trust and a committed trustee of the Birth Control Trust. Ann Furedi pays tribute...
The latest PET event brought together four experts in the field to discuss the importance of fertility treatment in meeting the challenges of global population decline...
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Upcoming event
28 May 2025 | 6.30pm - 8.00pm | Free event
Location: Edinburgh, EH8 9TJ
