A British couple who sought embryo screening to provide a bone marrow donor for their sick son have undergone IVF treatment in the US. Jayson and Michelle Whitaker, who were refused access to the screening procedure by the UK's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) in August, travelled to Chicago...
The UK's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) will launch a consultation paper on sex selection this week. A leak has suggested that the document will ask whether choosing the sex of a baby for 'family balancing' or other purely social reasons should be allowed. The HFEA has not denied...
In this week's BioNews, we report on the issuing of licenses to two UK IVF clinics to provide a procedure known as aneuploidy screening. The aim of this technique, which is a variation of preimplantation genetic diagnosis, is to screen out embryos that, because of chromosomal abnormality, are unlikely to...
Last week, we reported on the story of the Whitakers, whose request for preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) and tissue typing was refused by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA). Now that the discussion about the rights and wrongs of the request has died down a little, a broader debate...
News this week that the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has turned down an application for preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) and tissue typing has bemused many people. Why has the HFEA denied the Whitakers access to the procedure when it was happy to let the Hashmi family go ahead...
A couple seeking embryo screening to provide a bone marrow donor for their sick son have been refused access to treatment by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA). Michelle and Jayson Whitaker want to use preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) to have a baby who will be able to donate...
A report has been published by the UK's Science and Technology (ST) Committee criticising the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA). It follows oral evidence sessions with Ruth Deech and Suzi Leather, former and current chairs of the authority, that took place earlier in the year. The committee found that...
The UK parliament's Science and Technology Committee is due to publish a report this week on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), which will condemn a number of the authority's recent actions. The report is expected to say that the HFEA has 'usurped the powers of Parliament' and to...
Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) could help some women who suffer from repeated unexplained miscarriages. Carmen Rubio, co-ordinator of a PGD programme in Spain, told the annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) last week that her research showed that chromosomal abnormalities could be partly to...
A woman who will develop Alzheimer's disease at an early age has given birth to a baby that will never develop the disease. The mother is a carrier of an inherited genetic mutation which predisposes her to early-onset Alzheimer's. Scientists in Chicago used pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) to screen embryos...
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