Stem cell therapy has been used in mice to functionally cure diabetes for the first time, as published in the journal Nature Biotechnology...
A clinical trial using gene therapy for treating a common cause of genetic blindness published positive results in Nature Medicine...
A common strain of gut bacteria may drive genetic changes that cause bowel cancer, according to research published in Nature...
Israel's Supreme Court has ruled that its surrogacy laws are discriminatory, and that same-sex couples and single men should be able to have children through surrogacy...
Professional medical bodies are calling for the UK law on the storage limit for frozen eggs to be extended, to provide women with more choice in their reproductive years...
UK health minister Matt Hancock has said Clinical Commissioning Groups should not be determining the level of access to NHS fertility services...
A UK woman who sued her father's doctors because they did not inform her of her risk of Huntington's disease has lost her case...
Anyone who donated sperm, eggs or embryos in the UK prior to the 2005 law change was promised life-long anonymity. Now in 2020, the probability of donors remaining anonymous is very much diminished, and continues to reduce, as more and more people take direct-to-consumer DNA tests...
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#ExtendTheLimit of what PET can do
by Sarah Norcross
Changing the law is a central part of what the Progress Educational Trust (PET) does. PET was born out of a campaign — the Progress Campaign for Research into Human Reproduction — and more than 30 years later, remains actively involved in several campaigns. It is in our DNA to campaign on your behalf...
ABC v St George's: exercising judgment without fear
by Professor Anneke Lucassen
A long-awaited decision in the case of ABC v St George's and others was made public last week...