The ethics of preimplantation genetic testing using polygenic scores
Academics from Oxford University discuss the ethics surrounding preimplantation genetic screening tests, including the use of polygenic risk scores...
by Dr Helena Carley and 4 others
Academics from Oxford University discuss the ethics surrounding preimplantation genetic screening tests, including the use of polygenic risk scores...
Michigan legislators are taking steps to protect IVF and overturn a ban on commercial surrogacy...
Two fertility clinic staff in Israel have been arrested over the transfer of embryos imported from Georgia, carrying a haemophilia B variant...
A BBC documentary about social egg freezing has accused the UK fertility sector of misleading advertising....
by Ochuko Oyeye
This PET event looked at the ways that trauma can affect a patient's experience of treatment, and explored the ways that professionals who work with them can handle this...
Despite the pain and confusion it has caused many IVF patients in Alabama, the Alabama Supreme Court's ruling that embryos had personhood, has forced many politicians and legislators in the USA to confront the impact of making reproductive care a political football…
Alabama's legislature has passed a new law to protect fertility clinics from criminal charges following the State Supreme Court's ruling that embryos created through IVF are considered children...
Alabama legislators have agreed new laws to protect IVF after the state Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are considered unborn children...
by Professor Sonia Suter and 1 others
The conflation of abortion law with access to IVF has been inevitable since Roe was overturned…
by Igor Brusil
The decision by the Alabama Supreme Court to define embryos as children has sent shockwaves around the USA and beyond, but to understand its potential impact, it needs to be recognised the decision was a democratic one…
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