A stage of development which, in humans, lasts for eight weeks after the fertilised egg first starts to divide.
In this podcast from the Economist, science editor Alok Jha speaks to Professor Jennifer Doudna, joint Nobel prize winner alongside Professor Emmanuelle Charpentier in chemistry, about her work on the genome editing approach CRISPR.
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) has published a first draft guideline on improving care for trans and gender diverse people accessing health services...
Lecturer in medical ethics at Lancaster University, Dr John Appleby looks at the reasons why the 14-day rule for embryo research was imposed in the first place, and why it should be reconsidered...
North Central London Integrated Care Board (NCL ICB) has introduced a new single fertility policy, commencing today, that enables those eligible, and under 40, to have three cycles of IVF and six embryos transferred under NHS funding...
Mechanisms leading to aneuploidy in embryos can start right from the first DNA duplication, a new study has shown...
Ethicists, Professor Wybo Dondorp and Professor Guido de Wert, summarise the 2021 evaluation of the Dutch Embroys Act with regard to the legal definition of an embryo, and how this relates to the recommendation to lift the ban on creating embryos for research...
With consumer DNA testing growing in popularity, it is becoming increasingly difficult to ensure the anonymity of both donors and donor-conceived children...
A US couple has filed a lawsuit against a fertility clinic for transferring a female embryo into their gestational carrier, resulting in the birth of a daughter after requesting a son...
BioNews, published by the Progress Educational Trust (PET), provides news and comment on genetics, assisted conception, embryo/stem cell research and related areas.
