France's national consultative committee on bioethics has said that single women and gay women should be able to access IVF and other assisted reproductive technologies...
A woman in Melbourne, Australia, has won the right to undergo IVF treatment using donor sperm, without the consent of her estranged husband...
Two research groups have, for the first time, used genome editing to successfully treat mitochondrial disease in animals...
Taking contraceptives that contain a low dose of oestrogen has been linked to a reduced rate of ovarian cancer, in a study of almost two million women...
Almost a quarter of all cancer gene test variations were amended due to reclassification over the course of a decade, found a new study...
A total of 30 Canadian businesses have been found to provide untested and potentially unsafe stem cell treatments in a recent study...
The Equality and Human Rights Commission is preparing to sue NHS England over failing to offer fertility preservation services to transgender patients...
A six-week public consultation in relation to IVF provision in Bury has resulted in the reduction of treatment cycles that couples can receive...
A shortage of sperm donors has forced a Japanese hospital to stop offering couples a certain type of fertility treatment...
The TedMed talk by Professor Alta Charo, entitled 'Should we fear gene editing?', highlights the progress made and the concerns raised in genetic research over the past fifty years...
Coronation Street's DNA Secrets gave a whirlwind tour around the ethnic diversities hidden in the gene pools of some of the soap's most well-loved stars, past and present...
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Modern surrogacy needs a modern law: How should we regulate surrogacy in the 21st century?
by Jen Willows
At the Royal Society of Edinburgh, on 27 September 2018, the Progress Educational Trust (PET) held its public event 'Modern Surrogacy Needs a Modern Law: How Should We Regulate Surrogacy in the 21st Century?'...