Is the export of donor sperm explained adequately to recipients?
Many fertility patients who use donor sperm are unaware that sperm from UK donors they have used could be exported for use abroad, in addition to the 10-family UK limit...
Many fertility patients who use donor sperm are unaware that sperm from UK donors they have used could be exported for use abroad, in addition to the 10-family UK limit...
If tax payers' money is going to be spent on subsidising egg freezing in Singapore it needs to be spent wisely, argues Dr Alexis Heng Boon Chin...
by Sandy Starr
This film documents a lecture by Sandy Starr – deputy director of PET – about the life and legacy of JBS Haldane, who at one time was the best-known scientist in Britain and who helped to pioneer the idea of IVF...
The third session of the PET 2023 Annual Conference 'Challenges and Changes: What's Happening Across Europe?' brought together three eminent speakers working in reproductive medicine, fertility preservation and ethics…
The fourth session of the PET 2023 Annual Conference 'Looking to the Law: In the Clinic, in the Lab, in the Court' featured expert speakers in areas of embryo research, fertility counselling, and reproductive medical law...
The final session of PET's annual conference, 'Adapting to Change: Is Agreement Possible?', addressed questions of law reform in the areas of donor anonymity, research on embryos and the regulation of reproductive technologies more generally…
PET's 2023 Annual Conference took place on 6 December 2023. During the first session of the conference, Professor Peter Braude explored the history of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act...
The second session of the PET 2023 Annual Conference asked 'Where do we go next?' following Professor Peter Braude's superb coverage of the history of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act...
by Dr Lien De Proost and 1 others
Dr Lien De Proost and Dr Nienke de Graeff, bioethics academics at Leiden University Medical Centre, explore the possibility of doubling the 14-day limit on embryo research in the Netherlands...
Further political debate on whether embryo research should be extended to a 28-day limit may be postponed following the unforeseen far right win during last week's Dutch national election…
BioNews, published by the Progress Educational Trust (PET), provides news and comment on genetics, assisted conception, embryo/stem cell research and related areas.