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...
This week's BioNews reports on news from two cancer charities that general practitioners (GPs) are referring too many women for breast and ovarian cancer genetic tests. According to a joint report published by the Cancer Research Campaign (CRC) and the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF), many women coming to their...
We all know that Dolly is the most famous sheep in the world. She is also the only cloned animal that most of us would be able to name. So it comes as no surprise that it is her health, rather than that of any other sheep or any other...
This week's BioNews reports on the HFEA's announcement that it will in principle permit preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) and tissue typing in IVF units in the United Kingdom. But whilst families keenly awaiting this opportunity were delighted, not everyone was happy to hear the news. There was, of course, the...
BioNews readers from outside the United Kingdom may be perplexed to read the reams of British press coverage of Sophie, Countess of Wessex's, ectopic pregnancy. After all, one in every 100 pregnancies is ectopic; so Sophie is hardly unusual, in this respect at least. Intense media interest in all things...
A short paper in this week's British Medical Journal (BMJ) suggests that UK IVF clinics are discriminating against HIV positive men and women. A spokesman for the Terrence Higgins Trust, a UK AIDS charity, was quick to agree: 'We do not know on what grounds these clinics are refusing to...
At the time of writing, the UK House of Lords is in the middle of debating the Human Reproductive Cloning Bill. So far, the discussion has been largely calm and considered and the Lords seem united in their opposition to human reproductive cloning. But a few peers have voiced concerns...
The ProLife Alliance is no doubt feeling pretty pleased about its triumph in the High Court last week, which ruled that human cloning is effectively unregulated in the United Kingdom. But it's hard to see what everybody else will gain from the exercise. The only other person who seems to...
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