Ireland's Minister for Foreign Affairs has been challenged in the High Court of Ireland after 'unreasonable delays' in processing a passport application made on behalf of a child born via surrogacy abroad...
A statistical model that uses genomic data to calculate which patients are most likely to develop oesophageal cancer eight years before diagnosis has been developed...
Families in New Zealand with babies born through surrogacy are unable to bring them home due to international border restrictions caused by COVID-19...
Yoshihide Suga, the frontrunner to become Japan's next prime minister, has proposed that fertility treatments should be covered by insurance....
The safety and efficiency of CRISPR genome editing can be improved by identifying the best genome editing option for a specific application...
The NHS has agreed to continue storing a dead teen's frozen sperm until her mother can bring the case to court...
When I was asked to review a podcast about Dr Rosalind Franklin for BioNews, the name was definitely familiar but I needed to google her name to remind myself that she was a researcher and chemist, most known for her work towards the discovery of the structures of DNA, RNA and viruses...
I was aware of the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people in the UK but I did not know much about the causes...
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Heritable human genome editing: an insight into the International Commission's report
by Amarpreet Kaur
An International Commission on the Clinical Use of Human Germline Genome Editing was assembled by the Royal Society, the US National Academy of Sciences and the US National Academy of Medicine...
Expanded carrier screening: careful what you look for
by Dr Marieke Bigg
Progress Educational Trust produced an online event sponsored by the Scottish Government, to discuss the question: what should we be testing for in egg and sperm donors?...