The charity Womb Transplant UK has announced its intention to carry out the first womb transplant in the UK by the end of 2018, with living as well as deceased donors...
Scientists in Israel have linked prolonged stress during outbreaks of Israeli-Palestinian conflict with lowered sperm quality in Israeli men...
The US drugs regulator has put on hold an application for a clinical trial of a new genome editing based treatment for sickle cell disease...
Genealogy service MyHeritage has revealed that some of their user account data has been hacked...
A New York Court has ordered that a former couple's last frozen embryo must be destroyed, per the husband's wishes, despite being the woman's last chance to have a biologically related child...
Chemotherapy is not necessary to treat the most common type of breast cancer in 69 percent of cases, a new study has shown...
As avid readers of BioNews will know, I am a hard-to-please reviewer: more than willing to turn on TV, films, plays, radio or books that poorly represent any fertility issues, particularly those with legal dimension...
Jessica Hepburn, author of 'The Pursuit of Motherhood’, former executive director of the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith and founder of Fertility Fest, underwent eleven rounds of unsuccessful IVF, multiple miscarriages and a life-threatening ectopic pregna
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With great genomic data comes great responsibility
by Sarah Norcross
As part of Genomics England's Genomics Conversation initiative, the Progress Educational Trust (PET) — the charity that publishes BioNews — is producing a public event this month entitled 'With Great Genomic Data Comes Great Responsibility'...