Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts equipment used for embryo biopsy.
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Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts equipment used for embryo biopsy.
Book Review: Egg Freezing in the 21st Century – A global perspective
This latest book on egg freezing fails to consider the global context that women are operating in, argues Dr Kylie Baldwin...
Image by Sílvia Ferreira, Cristina Lopo and Eileen Gentleman via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a single human stem cell embedded within a porous hydrogel matrix (false colour).
Governance and law reform proposals for stem-cell-based embryo models
Stem-cell-based embryo models should be distinguished explicitly from human embryos in UK law, according to a UK bioethics organisation...
Image by Bill Sanderson via the Wellcome Collection, © Wellcome Trust Ltd 1990. Depicts Laocoön and his family (from Greek and Roman mythology) entwined in coils of DNA.
Assuta case update: Two-year-old to be removed from birth parents
A court in Israel has ruled that the genetic parents of a baby born following an IVF mix-up are her legal parents, and the child should be transferred from the custody of the birth parents, to them...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts equipment used for embryo biopsy.
Film Review: Joy
The story of IVF, from its early years in the 1960s to the birth in 1978 of Louise Brown, is depicted in this biographical drama, reviewed by former IVF patient Susan Tranfield-Thomas...
Image by Matthew Daniels via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts human cells, showing the stages of cell division.
South Africa may allow heritable human genome editing
In a significant update to its health research ethics guidelines, South Africa has introduced a new framework covering heritable human genome editing...
Image by Bill Sanderson via the Wellcome Collection, © Wellcome Trust Ltd 1990. Depicts Laocoön and his family (from Greek and Roman mythology) entwined in coils of DNA.
Application to use eggs for posthumous conception refused
The High Court has rejected a woman's application to use her deceased daughter's eggs for posthumous conception through surrogacy...
Book Review: Roads to Family – All the ways we come to be
Different accounts of infertility and the way affected people navigated their way to building a family, come together in this book…
Image by Bill Sanderson via the Wellcome Collection, © Wellcome Trust Ltd 1990. Depicts Laocoön and his family (from Greek and Roman mythology) entwined in coils of DNA.
Rules relaxed around reciprocal IVF and gamete donors with HIV
New UK regulations allow patients with non-transmissible HIV to donate eggs and sperm to known recipients and reduce screening requirements for same-sex female couples...
Netflix sued for disclosing identities of donor-conceived people
Netflix is being sued in federal court over the disclosure of three women's donor-conceived status in the 2022 documentary 'Our Father'...
