The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has recommended that parents of donor-conceived children are best placed to tell them about their biological origins, but should not be mandated to do so...
Skin cells have been directly converted into the types of cells destroyed in patients with myelin disorders like multiple sclerosis and cerebral palsy in a pair of studies on mice...
Scientists have identified an eight-gene 'signature' that can predict patients' response to chemotherapy...
A neural stem cell therapy aimed at treating the symptoms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is set to advance in the USA, after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave its approval for it to proceed to the next stage of clinical trials...
Human stem cells have been converted into bone cells using a technique called 'nanokicking'...
Researchers have identified a gene that regulates the regeneration of adult heart cells...
Researchers in Australia have identified a genetic link to a common form of epilepsy, which could lead the way to genetic testing for this type of the condition....
For a self-described 'look inside your genes', this programme did what it set out to accomplish but ultimately obscured the real complexity of autism spectrum disorders...
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The state provision of fertility treatment: 'NICE' idea
by Dr Antony Starza-Allen
The Progress Educational Trust's debate, 'NICE Try… But is anyone listening?', considered the impact of the radical structural changes to the NHS on the state provision of IVF. At least two central critical themes emerged from the debate: a critique of method and a critique of measure...
Nuffield report: Parents should decide whether or not to 'tell'
by Professor Wybo Dondorp
The Nuffield Council report rightly rejects the call to pressurising parents into compliance, as this abstract ideal of openness disallows them to make their own moral judgements about what is best in their situation and for their family...
Podcast: Being - The Donor-Conceived Perspective
by James Brooks
A podcast produced as part of the When It Takes More Than Two project organised by the Progress Educational Trust...