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.
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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 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.
UK Government to offer bereavement leave after failed IVF transfers
The UK Government has announced plans to give employees in Great Britain a legal right to bereavement leave following pregnancy loss, including miscarriage and unsuccessful IVF embryo transfers...
Baby born with heart defect can return to California after surrogacy dispute
The Texas Supreme Court has ruled that the intended parents of a seriously ill newborn can take the child back to California...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
What fertility awareness campaigns can learn from lived experiences
Fertility awareness should go beyond age and biology to reflect the diverse ways people experience reproductive uncertainty throughout their lives, writes Dr Eva De Clercq...
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.
Image by Peter Artymiuk via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts the shadow of a DNA double helix, on a background that shows the fluorescent banding of the output from a DNA sequencing machine.
TV Review: Dolly – The world's most famous sheep
Dolly the sheep became a global scientific celebrity when she was revealed in 1997. This documentary revisits her cloning, exploring both the science behind her creation and the ethical questions that captured the public imagination…
Parenthood at birth, protection before pregnancy: A clinician's case for surrogacy reform
New evidence on the risks of gestational surrogacy should strengthen the case for better safeguards, writes Dr Carole Gilling-Smith...
Australian woman carried her own baby and surrogacy child simultaneously
An unusual situation where a surrogate conceived naturally around the same time as an embryo transfer has proved challenging for a Queensland court...
TV Review: A Body That Works
Dr Dan Jacobson reviews 'A Body That Works', a complex drama exploring surrogacy, identity, and the relationships shaped by fertility treatment...
Baby with heart defect born amid US surrogacy conflict
A baby with a severe heart defect has been born in Texas, at the centre of a custody battle and wider discussion around surrogacy...