A UK fertility doctor says he is prepared to launch a legal challenge on behalf of a couple who want to conceive a 'saviour sibling' for their ill son. Two-year old Joshua Fletcher has Diamond Blackfan anaemia, a rare condition that could be cured with a blood stem cell transplant...
Today is BioNews' fifth birthday and its 250th issue. Since we launched in 1999, the worlds of reproductive medicine, stem cell research and human genetics have given us plenty to write about. In fertility research and treatment, work to restore the fertility of cancer patients has moved on tremendously. A...
A second UK couple are hoping to use PGD (preimplantation genetic diagnosis) to conceive an IVF baby free from beta thalassaemia, who will also be able to provide cord blood to treat a sibling with the incurable blood disorder. The IVF treatment will carried out at the private Centre for...
This week's BioNews reports on news that a 'saviour sibling' is to be born in Australia. A couple from Tasmania sought preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) with tissue typing in order to have a second child who would be free from a particular genetic condition, Hyper IgM syndrome. In addition, the...
A woman from Tasmania is 14 weeks pregnant with a baby that could eventually help to save the life of its ill brother. The parents of a four-year-old boy with an inherited immune system disorder traveled to the Sydney IVF clinic, in order to conceive a child who could provide...
The Italian Parliament has given its final approval to a controversial bill governing assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs), said to be the most restrictive in Europe. The Chamber of Deputies voted 277-222 in favour of the bill, with three abstentions. The new law, which will come into force when it...
The UK's House of Lords is to rule on a landmark legal battle over the creation of so-called 'saviour siblings'. A challenge has apparently been launched to a decision from the Court of Appeal that allowed a couple to use IVF with preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) and tissue-typing techniques to...
The Italian Senate has passed a bill governing assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs), said to be the most restrictive in Europe. Parliamentarians voted 169-90 in favour of the bill, the first that the country has passed in this area. Italian lawmakers, while debating the new law, were concerned that Italy...
According to a report in the Daily Mail this weekend, Michelle and Jayson Whitaker have now made up their mind to go ahead with the stem cell transplant that may save their son, Charlie. In June, the British couple, who were refused permission by the UK's Human Fertilisation and Embryology...
The US needs broader regulation of 'reprogenetics': medical technologies that involve the creation, use and storage of human egg, sperm or embryos, according to a US bioethics centre report on the subject. Co-author Lori Knowles told the Scientist magazine last week that 'the really important thing is for some action...
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