Using 'gene drive' technology, scientists have created mosquitoes with malaria-resistant genes that could spread rapidly into wild mosquito populations, potentially wiping out the disease in some areas...
More young women in the USA with cervical cancer are having fertility-sparing treatment due to earlier diagnosis...
An appeals court in Pennsylvania, USA, has ruled that a woman is to remain the legal parent of a child born through surrogacy, despite separating from her husband before the child was born...
Scientists have used genome-editing technology to identify a core set of 1580 genes that are essential to human life...
Progesterone supplementation in the first trimester of pregnancy does not improve outcomes for women with unexplained recurrent miscarriages, according to a large clinical trial...
A woman is suing a fertility clinic in Australia for failing to detect that she was a carrier of a genetic mutation during pre-pregnancy testing, after her sons were later born with an inherited condition....
A Channel 4 documentary about the surrogacy business in Mexico exposes some alarming practices...
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Genome editing and CRISPR: what Washington needs to know
by Dr Silvia Camporesi and 1 others
It is important to engage the public in the debate about genome editing as early as possible, and in a way that is as open as possible, to make sure that all possible voices are included...
We must support parents in being open with their donor-conceived children
by Nina Barnsley and 2 others
The resounding message that came from the recent PET/NGDT event was that more needs to be done to support parents of donor-conceived children in telling them about their origins...
Podcast: 10 Years Since the End of Donor Anonymity - Have We Got It Right?
If you missed '10 Years Since the End of Donor Anonymity: Have We Got It Right?', a debate organised by the Progress Educational Trust (PET) in partnership with the National Gamete Donation Trust, then you are in luck. This podcast, produced by Pod Academy, captures some of the highlights from the debate....