Mitochondria are not as interchangeable as originally thought, with implications for the selection of donors for mitochondrial donation...
On 22 March 1999, BioNews launched its first online newsletter digest. It ran with ten news stories and a comment piece by Juliet Tizzard, a former director of the Progress Educational Trust, called ‘Why BioNews?’...
The New York State Supreme Court has granted permission for the parents of a deceased US army cadet to use his frozen sperm to have grandchildren...
An international commission has been assembled to provide guidance on the development of therapies using human germline genome editing...
The UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has released new commissioning guidance offering NHS clinical commissioning groups advice on delivering high-quality cost-effective fertility services.
Sons whose mothers experienced high levels of stress during their first 18 weeks of pregnancy may have reduced fertility when they become adults...
Men taking steroids and anti-baldness medications to appear more attractive may be inadvertently reducing their fertility, warn two scientists...
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'The controversial questions that confront us are not for the future; the technology is already at our doorstep,' Kenneth Cukier tells us in a recent episode of the Economist podcast, on 'the genetic revolution'. In this episode, Cukier explores the ways
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BioNews 1000: Looking back at the last 20 years, and forward to the next 20
by Professor Marcus Pembrey and 1 others
Professor Marcus Pembrey and Dr Jess Buxton reflect on 20 years of BioNews and its unrivalled coverage of scientific, legal and ethical developments in the fields of human genetics and assisted conception...
The open future of donor conception
by Vince Londini
In a recent commentary, Professor Guido Pennings outlined his views on donor anonymity and DNA-testing databases. Professor Pennings seems to advocate for the contractual rights of anonymous donors by placing such in opposition to the increasingly recogni