A pool of stem cells found on the surface of the eye can be used to form light-sensitive cells that could one day treat blindness, researchers have reported...
Mothers who smoke while pregnant or breastfeeding may reduce their sons' future fertility, according to research...
A woman is suing a sperm bank in Ohio, USA, after she became pregnant with sperm from the wrong donor...
A university professor who offered private, 'insemination services' has been sentenced to a nine-month suspended sentence for sexually assaulting a woman...
A project to investigate the genetic history of the Welsh which will also give participants information about their own DNA make-up, is now underway...
Drinking more than two pints a week could have negative effects on men's semen quality, a study has found...
The UK's High Court has granted a parental order following surrogacy despite a six month deadline for making them having passed, describing strict enforcement of the deadline as 'almost nonsensical'...
Russell Blackford's venture into heated human enhancement rhetoric feels very much like being plunged into the world of Andrew Niccol's 1997 film, Gattaca...
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Surrogacy in Ireland: A missed opportunity
by Fiona Duffy
Why does the Children and Family Relationships Bill 2014, published in Ireland on 25 September 2014, contain no provision for surrogacy?...