The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) and Human Tissue Authority (HTA) have been spared the 'bonfire of the quangos' it was announced on Friday, but will be subject to an independent review to improve efficiency...
An Irish couple has brought a legal challenge against the State for refusing to remove the surrogate mother from their children's birth certificates and to register the genetic mother as a legal parent...
In what is thought to be a first, stem cells have been used to generate human kidney tissue...
Altering the genetic makeup of immune cells could provide them with resistance to HIV...
Scientists have for the first time shown the existence of a new structural form of DNA, called G-quadruplex DNA, in human cells....
Digital information can be reliably stored in DNA, say scientists...
Nearly all cases of meningioma — the commonest kind of brain tumour — can be traced back to a fault in one of just five genes, scientists say...
Forty years ago I began to realise that the most interesting work in medicine lay at the interface of different specialties. Researchers who straddle such boundaries gain important insights but the experience can be daunting...
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Securing our future
by Sarah Norcross
Last Thursday at the Progress Educational Trust (PET) debate Receiving: The Recipient Parent Perspective, I joked that I didn't know who had the most secure job - Juliet Tizzard, who is Head of Policy and Communications at the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), or me....
New Life for the HFEA
by Baroness Ruth Deech
In January the Department of Health published its response to the consultation on proposals to transfer the functions of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority and the Human Tissue Authority to the Care Quality Commission and the new Health Research Authority...
Receiving: The Recipient Parent Perspective
by Cait McDonagh
The second debate in the Progress Educational Trust's project 'When It Takes More Than Two' took place at University College London last week. The debate, 'Receiving: The Recipient Parent Perspective', focused on the views of those who have received donor gametes to begin their families....