Women at high risk of developing breast cancer should be offered preventative drugs, suggests the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence in updated guidelines...
Rare genetic variants may have a significant impact on a person's risk of developing autism, research suggests...
A man has been ordered to pay child support to his ex-wife for two children conceived through a sperm donor and born during the marriage....
Women who conceive using IVF are at a higher risk of lethal blood clots during pregnancy compared to women who conceive naturally...
The Indian Home Ministry has issued strict visa guidelines making it more difficult for commissioning parents to obtain visas for entry to India for surrogacy arrangements...
Some really are born leaders; according to a new study, the likelihood of occupying a leadership role is affected by your genes...
A US team of researchers has shown it is possible to link whole genome sequence data to a specific person, using only publicly available information....
The bacteria that cause leprosy appear able to perform an unlikely manoeuvre that scientists are calling 'biological alchemy' - they can infect specialised nervous system cells and change them into stem cells...
The BBC's hour-long documentary 'The Baby Makers: The Fertility Clinic' followed the ups and downs of both patients and staff at one of Britain's largest fertility centres - the Hewitt Fertility Centre in Liverpool...
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Donor conception in the UK: the seldom-heard voices of minority ethnic communities
by Professor Nicky Hudson and 1 others
When we set out over ten years ago to carry out research about infertility within British South Asian communities, little was known about how involuntary childlessness and its possible resolution with assisted conception was experienced by members of minority ethnic communities in the UK...
Thinking caps on!
by Sarah Norcross
The office from which we at the Progress Educational Trust (PET) publish BioNews does not have central heating. It's therefore unsurprising, perhaps, that conversation in the office this icy morning moved quickly from bioethics and the contents of today's edition of BioNews to thermal long johns and how best to keep warm....