The UK's 14-day legal limit on human embryo research should be the subject of public discussion, researchers have said...
A human embryo model created from adult stem cells shows the production of blood cells during early development...
A 62-year-old widow has received permission from the Western Australia Supreme Court to have her deceased husband's sperm extracted...
Two Californian couples are suing a health technology company after their embryos failed to develop...
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has recommended the NHS funds olaparib for the maintenance treatment of advanced ovarian cancer in women with BRCA1 and 2 variants and advanced or metastatic prostate cancer in men...
A new gene therapy has been successfully tested in mice that could provide an alternative to surgery in children with drug resistant epilepsy...
Dr Elpida Fragouli, a highly accomplished scientist in the field of preimplantation genetic testing and volunteer writer for BioNews, sadly died at the end of last year due to cancer…
The past, present and future of gene therapies is discussed in this Pulse podcast...
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Singapore can justify public egg freezing subsidy by imposing strict conditions
by Dr Alexis Heng Boon Chin
If tax payers' money is going to be spent on subsidising egg freezing in Singapore it needs to be spent wisely, argues Dr Alexis Heng Boon Chin...
FILM: The First Transhumanist? Haldane's 'Daedalus' 100 Years On
by Sandy Starr
This film documents a lecture by Sandy Starr – deputy director of PET – about the life and legacy of JBS Haldane, who at one time was the best-known scientist in Britain and who helped to pioneer the idea of IVF...