Helen Beasley, the British woman who was left with twins after an American couple backed out of a surrogacy arrangement, is to receive over £4000 compensation. Under the original surrogacy contract, Ms Beasley was to be paid £14,000, but the couple, Charles Wheeler and Martha Berman, have agreed to cover...
A lawsuit has been filed against the Edinburgh based Roslin Institute alleging that they "misappropriated" research on genetically altered chickens in a project for an anti-cancer treatment. Avigenics, a US biotechnology company based at the University of Georgia, claim that the work done by Roslin and another US biotech firm...
A study published in the journal Human reproduction has shown that the age at which a woman reaches the menopause is largely genetically determined. Dutch researchers undertook the project after noticing that more women were delaying childbirth until after the age of 30 - they wanted to see if this trend...
The first do-it-yourself fertility test kits are being sold on the internet. Med-Direct, a Scotland-based company have devised two kits - a 'his and hers' kit retailing at £31.99, and a 'men-only' kit for £19.99. The researchers also hope to market a chlamydia testing kit in the near future - the kit...
Following the announcement by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) last week that 64 embryonic stem cell lines have been identified as eligible for use in federally funded projects, it has emerged that some of these cells may be unsuitable for research. Some scientists are claiming that not all...
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Time's ticking away
by Professor Kirsty Horsey
A study published last week in Human Reproduction shows that there is a genetic clue to the age at which a woman has her menopause. This seems to have sparked a great deal of interest in the press, who have since been advising us (especially the 'career women') 'how to...