Cap on gamete donor expenses in the UK should be lifted, report recommends
A report on the donation of human bodily material for medicine and research has made several recommendations including removing the current cap on egg and sperm donor expenses in the UK...
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Race and genetics in stem cell transplantation
by Professor Steven Marsh
Each year around 2,800 people in the UK have a stem cell transplant, without which they would have shortly faced death, usually from a blood cancer or another blood disorder. The race of a patient is a real factor in how likely they are to match with a donor....
Evidence and models of best practice should guide recruitment of gamete donors
by Professor Eric Blyth and 2 others
We welcome much of what Kamal Ahuja wrote in his recent BioNews Commentary 'If it ain't broke don't fix it'. Like him, we believe there is no good evidence to demonstrate that paying 'donors' would increase the supply of donated sperm or oocytes. On the contrary, there is evidence to suggest that properly constructed donor recruitment programmes — such as the one pioneered at the London Women's Clinic — are capable of recruiting a good supply of altruistic donors...
Bienvenue Monsieur Brooks and hasta la vista Vivienne
by Sarah Norcross
This edition of BioNews sees a new Science Editor, as James Brooks takes over from Dr Vivienne Raper....