Surrogacy 'should be treated like a sex crime', says Italian minister
Italy's interior minister, Angelino Alfano, has said that people who use surrogacy should be treated as sex offenders and sent to prison, in the face of Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi’s attempts to grant family rights to same-sex couples...
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Why the UK should be leading the discussion on embryo engineering
by Sarah Pritchard
Sir Mark Walport, the UK's Chief Scientific Adviser, gave the keynote address at the Progress Educational Trust's annual conference, where he highlighted the complexity of assessing emerging science and technology, particularly in relation to genome editing...
Three-person IVF: What makes mitochondrial donation different?
by Dr Cathy Herbrand
We report from the second session of the annual conference of the Progress Educational Trust, titled 'From Three-Person IVF to Genome Editing: the Science and the Ethics of Engineering the Embryo', about the newly legalised process of mitochondrial donation...