Event Review: Surrogacy Law Reform
Ahead of the publication of the Law Commission's long-awaited final proposals for reform of the law relating to surrogacy in the UK, LSE Law School held a panel event to discuss the implications...
The unborn offspring of a mammal. In humans, this stage of development lasts from nine weeks after fertilisation until birth.
Ahead of the publication of the Law Commission's long-awaited final proposals for reform of the law relating to surrogacy in the UK, LSE Law School held a panel event to discuss the implications...
Professor Vardit Ravitsky explores the bioethical implications of a recent embryo mix-up case in Israel...
Dr Anna Smajdor explains the background to her recent paper which explored the ethics of using brain-dead women as gestational surrogates...
The Progress Educational Trust, in partnership with the Scottish Government, brought together a group of experts to cut through the hype and jargon and explain the latest developments in genetics/genomics in the context of assisted conception...
Sertoli cells, which are crucial to sperm formation, have been recreated in the lab using pluripotent stem cells, to help study the earliest stages of sex determination...
by Dr Ruth Horn and 2 others
Guidance for clinical practice from the Joint Committee on Genomics in Medicine on the ethical issues that can arise in prenatal genetic testing has been published. Here its authors review the key points...
Delivering an enzyme-replacement therapy to a fetus via its umbilical cord prevented a child from developing symptoms of a rare genetic condition, in a first-of-its-kind clinical trial...
by Ryan Au
A family court in Israel has given a couple legal custody of a newborn infant, despite neither being genetically related to the child...
by BioNews
BioNews, published by the Progress Educational Trust (PET), provides news and comment on genetics, assisted conception, embryo/stem cell research and related areas.