Doctors must alert patients to IVF risks, says fertility watchdog
The UK's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), the government's fertility watchdog, is updating its guidelines to recommend that doctors make couples aware of the potential risks to children conceived by IVF. The decision follows the publication of a study by the Centers for Disease Control and...
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From Dolly the sheep to embryo selection: reflecting on a decade of progress in genetics and assisted reproduction
by Mark Henderson
Some things never change. When the first issue of BioNews appeared on 29 March, 1999, the second item announced that an Italian doctor was claiming to have helped ten infertile men to become fathers, by cultivating their sperm in the testicular tissue of rats. Just this morning, I was asked...
Happy birthday to us
by Dr Jess Buxton and 1 others
We at BioNews are celebrating its 10th birthday this week, with the publication of our 500th weekly email newsletter. Created and launched in 1999 by Juliet Tizzard - the first director of Progress Educational Trust (PET) - as a news round-up service for a few hundred interested people, BioNews now has an...