PET's chair of trustees, Professor Robin Lovell-Badge, was quoted in a Guardian article about how an upcoming consultation on the future of UK fertility law could incorporate regulation of eggs and sperm cells grown in vitro.
Professor Lovell-Badge, who is head of stem cell biology and developmental genetics at the Francis Crick Institute, London, and a member of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority's legislative reform committee explained that these approaches might allow couples who couldn't otherwise have genetically-related children, to have them in future.
'The techniques aren't there yet. But the rate of progress with either of those is so fast that it will happen' he said. 'People might be surprised but they shouldn't be. The science progresses much faster than the law.'
