Widow wins frozen embryo case
A widow has been allowed by the High Court to keep embryos created with her late husband in storage for ten years...
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.
A widow has been allowed by the High Court to keep embryos created with her late husband in storage for ten years...
There was a captivating debate around the emerging genetic choices, legal framework and ethical issues from the use of PGS (pre-implantation genetic screening) and PGD (pre-implantation genetic diagnosis) at this event produced by the Progress Educational Trust (PET)...
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has allowed a woman wanting to conceive using her dead daughter's eggs to export them to the US for treatment...
by Dr Kamal Ahuja and 2 others
The notion persists that sperm donation in Britain limps ahead in a state of perpetual crisis: difficulties at the much vaunted national sperm bank, imports of donor sperm flooding in from Denmark, and UK donors terrified of disclosing their identity. Yet nothing could be further from the truth...
by Arit Udoh
The Zika virus has been detected in the semen of a man six months after the onset of infection...
Chinese researchers say an IVF technique called pronuclear transfer can safely produce a viable pregnancy...
The US National Institutes of Health is considering lifting a ban on the funding of research to create human-animal 'chimeras' and replacing it with an ethical review process...
A couple whose daughter died of cancer, leaving frozen eggs in storage, has recently won the right to have their request for export reconsidered by the HFEA. There are a number of troubling features of the case which deserve proper scrutiny...
The case of Samantha Jeffries - a widow who is trying to save the embryos she created with her husband before his death - holds lessons both for fertility clinics and for the HFEA...
A study has identified a potential problem with mitochondrial donation, an IVF technique that aims to prevent the transmission of faulty mitochondria from mother to child...
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