A Sicilian woman who conceived octuplets after taking fertility drugs has given birth to all eight babies, one of whom has died. Doctors caring for Mariella Mazzara at the Niguarda hospital in Milan were hoping to delay the delivery until the 27th week of pregnancy, but the first baby girl...
A team of US scientists has found that assisted hatching, a technique used in fertility clinics to help embryos implant into the womb, could increase the chance of monozygotic (identical) twins. The scientists, based at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, published their results in the latest issue...
The leaders of the Human Genome Project met in Paris last week to discuss strategies for finishing off the 'rough draft' of the human genome sequence completed in June, reports last week's Nature. Only 25 per cent of the DNA sequence that makes up the human genetic information is currently...
A UK man and his half-sister, both conceived through donor insemination (DI), are to challenge the law to try and obtain details of their biological fathers. Adam and Joanna Rose will claim that the current law banning sperm donor identification is in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights...
European MPs have passed a resolution condemning the UK government's recent recommendation to allow research into therapeutic cloning - the use of cloned early embryo cells to develop new disease treatments. The European Parliament narrowly approved a resolution calling for a ban on all forms of human cloning throughout Europe, by...
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Britain is no 'pariah state' on cloning
by Juliet Tizzard
When the European Parliament voted recently against stem cell research and therapeutic cloning, many British opponents of the research took the opportunity to pronounce that Britain may be falling outside European ethical values. One anti-embryo research activist, Lord David Alton, went as far as to suggest that Britain is a...