Researchers have identified multiple genes that influence obesity in both humans and labrador retrievers, providing new insights into the genetic basis of weight gain...
The British health insurance and healthcare company Bupa plans to offer an approach to people's genomic data that, it is claimed, can evaluate an individual's risk of developing seven common diseases...
The European Medical Agency has recommended marketing authorisation in the EU for a topical gene therapy drug to treat a rare genetic skin condition in children...
Better semen quality is associated with a longer lifespan according to a study in Danish men...
Mice have been created with woolly mammoth-inspired traits using genome editing in de-extinction efforts.
A British same-sex couple who had twins via surrogacy in Cyprus spent two months unable to leave the country...
Part documentary and part fly on the wall reality TV, Katie Price – Making Babies, follows Katie and her partner at the time, Carl, as they undergo fertility treatment...
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The public policy conundrum in complex surrogacy cases
by Cara Nuttall and 1 others
Family law solicitors, Cara Nuttall and Joe Ailion, reflect on the High Court's approach to parental orders in complex surrogacy cases. Together with Dr Bianca Jackson of Coram Chambers they represented the applicant father in X v W & Anor...
Obituary: Professor Margaret Brazier
by Professor Emma Cave and 1 others
Professor Margot Brazier – a leading figure in modern healthcare law – died on 4 March 2025...
PET Podcast: What Can the Fertility Sector Learn from the Infected Blood Scandal and Inquiry?
by Sarah Norcross
Bringing you PET events as a podcast. In the 26th episode of its podcast, PET discusses lessons for the fertility sector from the UK's infected blood scandal, with Professor Abha Maheshwari, Professor Marc Turner, Professor Emma Cave and Professor Bobbie Farsides...