A UK non-departmental public body established by an Act of Parliament in 1990, which regulates treatment using eggs and sperm, and treatment and research involving human embryos. It sets standards for, and issues licences to, fertility treatment and embryo research centres.
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has recommended that the law should be changed to extend the 14-day limit on human embryo research...
The first session of the PET 2024 Annual Conference 'What Is the Embryo's Special Status in the Clinic?' offered clinical perspectives on the human embryo....
The second session of the PET 2024 Annual Conference 'What Is the Embryo's Special Status in the Lab?' focused on the opportunities and challenges presented by using human embryos in research...
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has published recommendations calling for clear legislative action to differentiate stem cell-based embryos from embryos and to safeguard against ethical breaches...
A recent report published by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority showed that same-sex couples and single women are less likely to obtain fertility treatment on the NHS, with opposite-sex couples three times more likely to be given NHS funding...
A UK court has granted a widower permission to pursue fertility treatment using an embryo created with his late wife...
Associate professor of biomedical science at Peking University, China, Dr Alexis Heng Boon Chin, discusses the rise in preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy in Malaysia...
A survey has found that many fertility patients experience trauma, and they believe it is often intensified by insufficient care...
Manuela Perrotta's book unveils regulatory inadequacies that expose patients to abuse by the profit-driven medical industry...
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has found that the average age of patients starting fertility treatment continues to rise...
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