Eliot Spitzer, New York's Attorney General and candidate for Governor, says that if he is elected state Governor in Autumn, his administration would push for a referendum to pay for embryonic stem (ES) cell research in the state, in a similar way to the state of California. He says he...
Singapore is continuing its drive to lure Western scientists with a strong presence at the recent Biotechnology Organization Annual Conference in Chicago. Top quality stem cell researchers are being particularly targeted to join Singapore's strongly Government supported Biopolis Laboratories. Top ranking American scientist couple Dr Judith Swain and Dr Edward...
Research published in the journal Fertility and Sterility has shown that the quality of parenting and psychological adjustment of egg donation families is generally on a par with that of donor insemination (DI) and IVF families. Mothers and children from 17 families created by egg donation, 35 families created by...
Prospects of the US passing a federal bill in support of all forms of stem cell research seem to have stalled, with a busy legislative timetable and lack of agreement on the issues to blame. Last year, Congress seemed like it had successfully reopened the debate on stem cell research...
British women are being denied newer fertility drugs that help prepare the woman's body for egg stimulation, according to Bill Ledger, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Sheffield, The Times newspaper reports. IVF treatment requires a woman's ovaries to be stimulated in order to harvest eggs for...
Researchers based in the US have identified a genetic variation that substantially increases a person's risk of obesity. The research team, based at the Boston University Medical School in Massachusetts, found that small genetic changes in a region of DNA near a gene called INSIG2, can increase the likelihood of...
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'Forgotten' drug lets women have IVF without side-effects?
by Professor Brian Lieberman
Mark Henderson, The Times newspaper's Science Correspondent quotes Professor Bill Ledger of the University of Sheffield in a recent article extolling the virtues of gonadotrophin releasing hormone (GnRH) antagonists in IVF treatment. According to Professor Ledger, 'hundreds of infertile women could be spared the most distressing side effects of IVF...