Researchers at the US National Institute of Environmental Health have found that a woman's monthly 'fertile window' is much more unpredictable than previously thought. Current guidelines for getting pregnant, or avoiding a pregnancy, assume that a woman is fertile between days ten and 17 of her menstrual cycle. But the...
A UK couple who had triplets following fertility treatment at the Sheffield Fertility Clinic have won their claim for compensation equal to the cost of bringing up the third baby. Patricia and Peter Thompson say they only wanted one or two babies and they agreed with clinic staff that only...
UK politicians had their first opportunity to discuss the use of embryo stem cells to develop new disease therapies, in a House of Commons debate held last Friday. Such research will require an amendment to the 1990 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act, the subject of a free vote to be...
Prime Minister Tony Blair has promised the UK's biotech industry greater government support, pledging that the country will not be held to ransom by 'anti-science' protestors. Speaking to delegates attending the European Bioscience Conference held in London last week, Mr Blair said: 'Biotechnology is the next wave of the knowledge...
The UK government is finalising a deal that will allow NHS doctors to carry out tests on two patented genes involved in breast cancer, without paying royalty fees to British licence-holders Rosgen. Although the details of the deal have yet to be agreed, Rosgens say that in the interim, NHS...
Morag, a sheep cloned using the 'Dolly technique' at the Roslin Institute in Scotland, has died and been stuffed for display at an Edinburgh museum. Scientists cloned Morag and her twin sister Megan from sheep embryo cells grown in the laboratory, using the cell nuclear transfer technique later used to...
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Triplet mother is not ungrateful, uncaring or greedy
by Juliet Tizzard
Over the past week, the British media have been up in arms about the case of the Thompsons, who successfully sued their fertility clinic for transferring three embryos rather than two, an act that led to the birth of their triplets. But instead of showing sympathy for this couple, the...