This week's BioNews reports on a recent study of families with children conceived using assisted reproduction techniques. Surprisingly for a story that mentions IVF, it was hardly mentioned in the press. The authors, who reported their findings at an international conference last week, looked at the psychological health of families...
This week's BioNews reports on two important new studies in the field of adult stem cell research. Both call into question the much-hyped potential of these cells to grow into new body tissues, and have rendered those who oppose embryo stem cell research uncharacteristically speechless. Pro-life and religious groups with...
This week's BioNews reports on two new studies of babies born following assisted conception. One of the studies shows that these babies tend to be smaller than usual, and the other shows that they may have a increased risk of birth defects. What do these findings mean for couples undergoing...
Last week, a House of Lords select committee gave UK scientists a long-awaited green light to begin new research on human embryo stem cells. Within days, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority had granted its first licences, allowing two research groups to finally begin vital experiments aimed at developing new...
A 'designer baby' hit the headlines in the UK last week, even though the child in question has not yet been conceived, let alone born. It's future brother, three-year old Zain Hashmi has a rare blood disorder, thalassaemia, which can only be cured with a bone marrow transplant from a...
As we report in this week's BioNews, scientists in the United States have cloned a cat. Carbon copy (Cc), as the little creature is known, has caused rather a lot of excitement on both sides of the Atlantic, with many column inches being dedicated to the development. Some commentators have...
News this week that children born as a result of IVF treatment are at a higher risk of developing cerebral palsy might have caused some panic amongst patients and parents of IVF children, particularly if they read some of the newspaper headlines. But the study should not cause alarm. As...
This week's BioNews reports on a man who has become a father after a testicular tissue transplant to restore his fertility. This news, coupled with last week's development in ovarian tissue transplants, demonstrates just how far we've come in the treatment of cancer. Not so many years ago, just surviving...
Professor Roger Gosden, the scientist seeking to find methods for restoring female fertility in cancer survivors, must be getting very used to allegations that he is out to change the face of human reproduction. His work in ovarian tissue transplants has been in and out of the media over the...
The UK Department of Health is no doubt currently breathing a sigh of relief. Having won its appeal against last year's decision that UK legislation does not cover cloned human embryos, the government can now rest assured (assuming the case goes no further) that it does have regulatory control over...
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