The controversy surrounding the creation of so-called STAP cells continues with a report recommending the closure of the RIKEN Centre for Developmental Biology, the institute where the research was carried out...
Genes linked to cholesterol levels have been successfully edited in mice who received a single injection, thereby reducing their risk of heart disease, according to a study...
Keeping mobile phones in pockets can affect two important measures of sperm health, a study suggests...
Professor Colin Blakemore, a neuroscientist and defender of animal research, has been knighted in this year's Queen's Birthday Honours...
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a time-lapse imaging tool designed to improve the embryo selection in IVF for use in the USA....
In a research first, a section of light-sensing tissue, closely resembling the human retina, has been grown in the laboratory from human stem cells...
White blood cells have been made resistant to HIV after researchers rewrote their genome to contain a gene variant linked to immunity against the virus...
Produced by the National Gamete Donation Trust, 'Letters to my donor' is a collection of letters from parents who have undergone or who are undergoing IVF using donor sperm or eggs to their gamete donor...
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Farewell from me and welcome to Fiona Fox
by Professor Marcus Pembrey
When the Progress Educational Trust - the UK charity that publishes BioNews - emerged from the Progress Campaign for Research into Human Reproduction in 1992, I had no idea that I would end up chairing the Trustees for 20 of the last 22 years!...
Maternity leave for surrogacy will fail international surrogacy parents unless we act now
by Natalie Gamble
Many future parents of children born via surrogacy risk never being able to enjoy the new rights to leave and pay promised in the Children and Families Act...