The High Court has refused a man's application for direct contact with a child born to a same-sex couple using his sperm...
A treatment for prostate cancer, combining radiotherapy and a new type of gene therapy, is both safe and effective, a study has found...
The legislature in the Mexican state of Tabasco has voted to prevent foreign couples and gay men from having children via surrogacy...
An Australian study has found that a popular fertility test, available until 2013, significantly underestimated egg reserves...
Scientists have identified five genetic loci associated with extreme longevity...
Women exposed to high levels of passive smoking have an increased risk of experiencing infertility, according to research...
Two surrogates in the USA carrying triplets are coming under pressure from the intended parents to abort one of their fetuses...
If you'd like to learn more about epigenetics, or just watch a masterly science presenter at work, look to 2015 Francis Crick Prize winner Professor Rob Klose...
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The ethics of changing the 14-day rule
by Wendy Suffield
At PET's recent conference, Professor Azim Surani claimed that permission to carry out experiments on embryos beyond the 14-day rule could make a huge difference to research. It may be time to review the ethical reasoning behind this time limit...
What is the germline?
by Dr Nicoletta Charolidi
We report from the first session of the annual conference of the Progress Educational Trust, titled 'From Three-Person IVF to Genome Editing: the Science and the Ethics of Engineering the Embryo', in which Professor Azim Surani discussed the germline...