A leading researcher and advocate for the rights of the donor conceived has been awarded an MBE...
Results from the largest international study of its kind into autism strongly suggests that rare genetic variants contribute far more than common variants to the risk of developing the condition....
The Australian Federal Court in Sydney is considering groundbreaking legal action of whether private companies can obtain patents on human genes....
Researchers shouldn't feel obliged to disclose genetic information about study participants, a global survey of genetic researchers has found....
A new study looking at the economic costs and consequences of assisted reproductive technology (ART) has concluded that governments reap long-term economic benefits from funding ART services...
The risk of congenital malformations is increased in children born through assisted reproductive technology (ART), such as IVF or ICSI (intracytoplasmic sperm injection), researchers report today at the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics....
Reproductive success of both males and females is linked to common personality traits, particularly neuroticism, according to a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)....
A private clinic offering stem cell treatments has been closed by the Costa Rican government due to little evidence that the treatments work....
A study into the attitudes of donor-conceived siblings has been published in the US. Said to be the first empirical study of its kind in the US...
Data recently obtained by the Sunday Times newspaper, via a Freedom of Information Act enquiry to the UK's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), show that an average of 80 pregnancies achieved through IVF treatment are terminated each year....
'Take what you want', said God, '- and pay for it'. Or, to put it another - rather longer winded - way: society rarely if ever advances to the point where some new technology can be seen as an unmixed blessing. Robert Winston has further expanded God's nugget of wisdom into an entire book...
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The role of humour in sperm donor recruitment
by Professor Eric Blyth
Unlike either oocyte or embryo donation, sperm donation presents a massive PR problem - masturbation. At least since Onan came to a sticky end, masturbation (aka 'self-abuse') has both suffered censure and has provided a fertile source for low-grade humour....
Keeping abortion decisions in context
by Ann Furedi
The revelation in the UK's Sunday Times newspaper (6 June 2010) that some assisted conceptions end in abortion was bound to cause consternation....