DNA, Children and Young People's Health Resource is the world's first national research programme aimed at furthering understanding of how children's genes determine their physical and mental health...
Fertility equality campaigners have decided to withdraw their application for a judicial review of a policy affecting same-sex female couples against their local NHS commissioners...
A specific gene allele may contribute to the higher severity of stroke seen among black populations, and also the reason they are less responsive to commonly used stroke medications...
Long awaited eligibility criteria for Ireland's publicly-funded IVF treatment scheme have been published, but excludes treatment involving use of donor gametes...
A human stem-cell-based embryo model which includes some of the supporting structures required for embryonic development may enable further understanding of the earliest stages of human embryogenesis...
Italy's Parliament has passed a bill which could make surrogacy a 'universal crime' if approved by the Senate...
Here, Dr Alexander Ware reviews two podcasts addressing recent advances in the generation of stem-cell-based embryo models, with the hope of finding out what makes an embryo an embryo...
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My sibling, my child
by Professor Anna Smajdor
Professor Anna Smajdor looks at the ethical arguments thrown up by a TikTok star's desire to use her parent's embryos to have her own children...
Working together towards a best-practice approach to ethics in UK genomics
by Maili Raven-Adams
Genomic research and medicine offer huge potential to improve human health, but also present complex ethical dilemmas. Maili Raven-Adams outlines how the Nuffield Council on Bioethics is working to establish a 'gold standard' model for ethical standards in the field...
PET Podcast: The Women's Health Strategy
by Sarah Norcross
Bringing you PET events as a podcast. In the tenth episode of its podcast, PET marks one year since the UK Government published the Women's Health Strategy for England, with speakers Professor Geeta Nargund, Nickie Aiken MP, Isaac Barnswell, Laura-Rose Thorogood and Dr Raj Mathur...