The first patient in England to receive a personalised bowel cancer vaccine has been treated in a Birmingham hospital...
Mutations in the human genome occur more often than previously expected, but are not deemed harmful, according to a new study...
Women who give birth after fertility treatment face a 99 percent higher risk of being hospitalised for heart disease in the year after delivery, compared to those who conceive naturally...
The British Army has reversed its decision to reject a recruit over a cancer-risk gene following media scrutiny...
A genome-edited pig liver has been successfully transplanted into a human recipient for the first time...
The latest Lance Oppenheim documentary gives us a rare insight into the views of sperm donors, but ignores the proactivity of intended parents in building their families, writes Kelsey Kerr...
Dr Lisa Cherkassky of the University of Exeter led a timely workshop highlighting gaps in clarity over posthumous consent in the law...
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Men's fertility and wellbeing under the microscope
by Anthony Ryb
Are men and couples who are receiving fertility checks, or going through fertility treatment, being let down by a system that’s too female-centric?...
New Italian guidelines allow single women to transfer embryos… but only following a heterosexual relationship
by Dr Giulia Zanini
Italy's fertility laws have become less restrictive, writes Dr Giulia Zanini, but still promote the myth of the heterosexual nuclear family...
PET Podcast: Ten Families and Counting – Time for Global Limits on Donor-Created (Half-) Siblings?
by Sarah Norcross
Bringing you PET events as a podcast. In the 19th episode of its podcast, PET looks at whether there should be limits on the number of people who can be created from the sperm or eggs of the same donor, with Professor Jackson Kirkman-Brown, Christina Sommerlund, Kevin Moore, Dr Astrid Indekeu and Dr Grace Halden...