Podcast: Being - The Donor-Conceived Perspective
A podcast produced as part of the When It Takes More Than Two project organised by the Progress Educational Trust...
A laboratory technique used to match samples of DNA (for example in forensics) or to establish the relationship between two people (for example in paternity testing).
by James Brooks
A podcast produced as part of the When It Takes More Than Two project organised by the Progress Educational Trust...
DNA 60 Years On does an excellent job of highlighting the transformation of DNA from an obscure molecule to a symbol of our identity and individuality and the role it has come to play in our lives...
by Rachel Pepa
On 8 March staff at UK DonorLink were informed that the Government would discontinue the charity's funding as of September this year. They were told that the voluntary contact register service it provides for adults conceived with, or who donated, sperm or eggs before August 1991 would be transferred to the National Gamete Donation Trust by means of a single tender process, meaning it would be combined with the promotion of donor conception....
by Ari Haque
Ottawa fertility doctor Norman Barwin has been suspended from practising medicine for two months after artificially inseminating women with the wrong sperm. Five women were involved in four incidents of receiving the wrong sperm between 1986 and 2007....
Bread and beer are not usually things that one would associate with diseases like cancer, dementia or Huntington's disease. This view was proved wrong by geneticists who gathered at the University of Leicester on 9 October 2012 for a series of lectures aimed at the non-scientist. It seems yeast can be inspiration for genetics research too....
Whole genome sequencing is getting faster and cheaper but the huge healthcare benefits this data promises must be balanced by policies that protect patient privacy, says a report by the President's Commission of Bioethics in the USA...
A New York businessman is offering a mobile blood and tissue collection service for paternity testing....
by Vicki Kay
'What's more important, one person or everyone?' That's the question at the centre of Dennis Kelly's dark and chilling play, DNA...
Officials in New York State in the USA have passed a bill requiring people convicted of almost any crime to provide a sample for the state's DNA database. While generally lauded, the move has attracted criticism from civil rights groups who claim that constitutional privacy issues are raised by the government holding so many people's genetic information on file...
A Tel Aviv family court judge has set a precedent by recognising a woman whose twins were born via a surrogate as the legal parent...
BioNews, published by the Progress Educational Trust (PET), provides news and comment on genetics, assisted conception, embryo/stem cell research and related areas.