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.
A team of American scientists has produced the first non-human primate clone. Tetra, a Rhesus monkey baby, was born in September last year at the Oregon Regional Primate Research Center in the US. However, the creation of Tetra was not, done by nuclear transfer as Dolly the sheep was. Instead...
The three-week-old surrogate-born twins of a British homosexual couple have been refused official entry into the UK. The twins and their fathers were detained by immigration officers at Heathrow airport as the family tried to return to their UK home, and the passports of the children have been confiscated. The...
A 60-year old couple are to mount a legal battle for the right to have a grandchild using the sperm of their dead son. Natasha and Barry Smith from Worcestershire lost their only son, Lance, last November when he was killed in a road accident at the age of...
There's a case currently being heard in the English High Court which may have a revolutionary impact upon assisted reproduction. Margaret Briody is seeking damages of £200,000 in order, amongst other things, to pay for a surrogate mother to carry a child for her. Because of negligent medical care at...
Two of UK's leading fertility specialists clashed at the High Court last week in a landmark case in which a woman is seeking damages to pay for a surrogate birth. Forty-six year old Patricia Briody is claiming compensation from Helens & Knowsley Health Authority over a medical blunder that left her...
Two babies have made legal history by becoming the first British babies to be registered as having two fathers and no mother. Aspen Drewitt-Barlow and twin sister Saffron were born in California last Thursday to their gay parents, Barrie Drewitt and Tony Barlow. The Chelmsford couple who have been together...
The BBC will attempt to answer the age-old question of the nature-nurture relationship in an ambitious new television series, Child of Our Time. The multimillion pound project will follow 20 babies from conception to birth in January, and through the first 20 years of their lives. Presented by the UK's...
A gay couple from Essex has made legal history by persuading an American court to allow the pair to become parents of surrogate twin babies. It is the first time a British gay couple has won surrogate rights in a court and is expected to open the door to further...
This week's BioNews reports on news that the British Medical Association (BMA) has prepared a discussion paper for the forthcoming World Medical Association meeting which questions current objections to human cloning. The paper suggests that creating clones of existing people may not be as horrific as we might think. It...
A millionaire gay couple have been condemned for fathering twins using in vitro fertilisation and a surrogate mother from the US. Barrie Drewitt, 30, and Tony Barlow, 35, have spent £200,000 to bypass UK laws and become biological fathers when the surrogate gives birth to a boy and a girl...
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