The President's Council on Bioethics has apparently released several draft documents that recommend 'sweeping changes' to the regulation of assisted reproduction technologies (ARTs) in the US, and 'far-reaching' legislation that would ban some embryo research. The recommendations follow the publication of a report published earlier this year, entitled 'US Public...
US supporters of stem cell research are 'working furiously' to counter part of a bill banning patents on 'human organisms', Science magazine reported last week. They are worried that an amendment to the Commerce, Justice and State appropriations bill could strangle work on human embryo stem cells, despite a recent...
A US jury has ruled that a fertility clinic in Colorado did not discriminate against a blind woman when it stopped her artificial insemination treatment. Kijuana Chambers, who is blind because she was born prematurely, sued the clinic for discrimination under the federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Following the...
An international alliance of scientists, doctors and legal experts has called upon the United Nations to seek a ruling from the International Court of Justice (World Court) that would classify human reproductive cloning as a crime against humanity. The Human Cloning Policy Institute (HCPI) wants to ban attempts to clone...
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An ethical way to provide more embryos for research
by Professor Daniel Brison and 1 others
Throughout the entire history of IVF, the limited availability of surplus embryos from treatment cycles has compromised research into early human development and arguably held back improvements in techniques and success rates. Recently, the demand for so-called surplus IVF embryos has been exacerbated by the interest in deriving new human...