Filipino surrogates convicted by Cambodian court
Thirteen Filipino surrogates have been convicted of human trafficking in Cambodia...
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Surrogacy
The practice of bearing a child for another person or couple. In gestational (also known as 'full' or 'host') surrogacy, the surrogate carries an embryo conceived through IVF. In traditional (also known as 'partial' or 'straight') surrogacy, the surrogate's own egg is fertilised with the intended father's sperm.
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Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts equipment used for embryo biopsy.
Radio Review: Miracle Baby – Womb transplant
This BBC Radio 5 Live News Special features the story of Prue Craven, Australia's third recipient of a uterus transplant. Burleen Chhatwa was eager to learn more about this surgery and its implications...
Image by Bill Sanderson via the Wellcome Collection, © Wellcome Trust Ltd 1990. Depicts Laocoön and his family (from Greek and Roman mythology) entwined in coils of DNA.
Widower allowed to use embryo for surrogacy despite HFEA objection
A UK court has granted a widower permission to pursue fertility treatment using an embryo created with his late wife...
Image by Bill Sanderson via the Wellcome Collection, © Wellcome Trust Ltd 1990. Depicts Laocoön and his family (from Greek and Roman mythology) entwined in coils of DNA.
Assuta case update: Two-year-old to be removed from birth parents
A court in Israel has ruled that the genetic parents of a baby born following an IVF mix-up are her legal parents, and the child should be transferred from the custody of the birth parents, to them...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts equipment used for embryo biopsy.
Ten Years of Womb Transplants: What Have We Learned? What Does the Future Hold?
This PET event gathered together a range of speakers to celebrate and reflect after ten years from the first live birth following a human uterus transplant...
Book Review: International Assisted Reproductive Technology
A book that aims to describe the legal challenges of transnational surrogacy arrangements misses some crucial points, writes Dr Zaina Mahmoud...
Image by Bill Sanderson via the Wellcome Collection, © Wellcome Trust Ltd 1990. Depicts Laocoön and his family (from Greek and Roman mythology) entwined in coils of DNA.
Application to use eggs for posthumous conception refused
The High Court has rejected a woman's application to use her deceased daughter's eggs for posthumous conception through surrogacy...
Book Review: Roads to Family – All the ways we come to be
Different accounts of infertility and the way affected people navigated their way to building a family, come together in this book…
