The Progress Educational Trust (PET) symposium event 'Revolutionising Reproduction: The Future of Fertility Treatment' took place at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on the 19th March 2019...
A group of international experts is calling for a moratorium on the clinical use of germline genome editing in humans...
The Chinese government has announced new regulations on genomic technologies in response to a Chinese scientist's claim to have created genome edited babies...
The final session at the Progress Educational Trust's annual conference 'Make Do or Amend: Should We Update UK Fertility and Embryo Law?' continued the theme of looking to future reform of fertility law, as had the keynote address given by Sir James Munby
A Keynote Presentation given by Sally Cheshire, Chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, at the Progress Educational Trust's 2018 Annual Conference...
The announcement that Chinese scientists had genetically edited two embryos resulting in genome-edited human babies has occasioned outrage. My first reaction is that this action (if true) is both premature and reckless...
Plastics that do not contain bisphenol A (BPA) — a compound known to harm reproductive health — may not necessarily be any safer than those that do, experiments in mice have shown...
Recent programmes like Biohacking are what help Radio 4 maintain its place atop my ranking of BBC media outlets. I think I'd pay the license fee for it alone...
A new approach to treating Marfan syndrome may be on the horizon, thanks to developments in genome editing...
Mitochondrial donation has seeded a growing literature in bioethics, law and the social sciences. This technology, which introduces third-party mitochondria to an embryo or oocyte, has contributed to many long-standing social and ethical questions...
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