Australia joins America in calls to pay women for stem cell research eggs
An Australian law professor has called for women in Australia to be paid for donating their eggs to medical research. The call, reported in Australian news last week, has been met with reservations from some ethics lobbies....
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All embryos are not equal
by Michelle Hickman
Years before many people knew that they were infertile or would become infertile a law was made to actively discriminate against them. Many are now on a very tight deadline to save embryos so that they have the possibility of creating a much wanted family....
What next for preimplantation genetic screening (PGS)?
by Professor Joyce Harper
Preimplantation genetic screening (PGS) for aneuploidy was first reported by Verlinsky et al (1995) and Munne et al (1995). Both of these initial studies analysed polar bodies. The aim of the technique is to help determine the best IVF embryo for transfer on the grounds of the polar body or embryo's chromosomes, by performing biopsy and analysis of the chromosomes using fluorescent in situ hybridisation (FISH). There have been hundreds of papers on the use of PGS. It is well known that for pa...