Cancer patients' compensation claim for lost sperm reaches Court of Appeal
A group of legal claims over sperm samples lost due to a freezer breakdown in 2003 last week reached the Court of Appeal in London. Five men and the widow of a sixth are seeking compensation in respect of the lost sperm samples, which were taken before...
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Posthumous retrieval of gametes: a response
by David Josiah-Lake
As the solicitor for L, I take issue with the factual and legal inaccuracies in the Bionews article headed 'Posthumous Retrieval of Gametes: A Case of Deja vu?' It was accepted at court by all (the Government, the HFEA and ourselves) that the Blood case had not properly clarified the...
RNF135 is responsible for a new overgrowth syndrome
by Dr Deirdre Cilliers
Dr Deirdre Cilliers has won the inaugural Alan Emery Prize for her paper 'Mutations in RNF135, a gene with in the NFL microdeletion region, cause phenotypic abnormalities including overgrowth' (1). The award is made by the Royal Society of Medicine's Medical Genetics Section. Professor Alan Emery, a distinguished geneticist with...
Is the embryo sacrosanct? Multi-faith perspectives
by Katy Sinclair
The annual conference of the Progress Educational Trust - 'Is the embryo sacrosanct? Multi-faith perspectives' - was expertly chaired by Baroness Haleh Afshar, Founder and Chair of the Muslim Women's Network and Visiting Professor of Islamic Law at the University of Strasbourg. The panel comprised Anil Bhanot, General Secretary of the Hindu...