Healthy British women can now to choose to freeze their eggs, giving them the opportunity to delay motherhood without risking pregnancy complications, according to the Sunday Times. The new service, aimed at career women and those waiting for the right partner, will be launched nationwide next month...
US researchers at the University of Washington School of Medicine and Geron Corp have successfully treated damaged rat hearts with human embryonic stem cells, giving the best evidence yet that stem cells might be used to repair damage caused by heart attacks. Embryonic stem cells have the...
A team of US researchers based at Boston University have found that women who have IVF treatment are more likely to have high blood pressure during pregnancy than women who conceive naturally. The study, published last week in the journal Fertility and Sterility, links IVF treatment to...
British scientists have discovered the first genetic link to height, according to a study published in the journal Nature Genetics last week. The study shows that a single letter change in the DNA sequence of a gene called HMGA2 can boost a person's height by around one...
Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has passed a new measure that supports stem cell research - including that on human embryonic stem cells - but prohibits human cloning. Blagojevich established the Illinois Regenerative Medicine Institute in 2005, which has since spent $15 million on research. The new law will aid...
Comment
Reproducing regulation: issues arising from the Human Tissue and Embryos (Draft) Bill
by Professor Marcus Pembrey
A Parliamentary committee has recently challenged several proposals in the UK Government's draft revised legislation for assisted reproduction and embryo research, published earlier this year. These areas of biomedical research and personal reproductive decisions raise important ethical and social issues. As such, the committee report is welcome, because it re-opens...