Judge criticises HFEA consent forms
A High Court judge has questioned aspects of the consent process for fertility treatment in a ruling in which he made a declaration of parentage in respect of a child born following IVF...
News
MIT student claims CRISPR patent not earned
A former MIT visiting student who worked in the Zhang lab for nine months in 2011 has claimed that patents over the CRISPR genome-editing technology were 'mis-patented'...
Zika can remain in semen for six months
The Zika virus has been detected in the semen of a man six months after the onset of infection...
IVF more successful for 'white' women
White British women are more likely to have a successful pregnancy through IVF or ICSI than women from other ethnicities in the UK, according to a recent study...
Mitochondrial donation case study finally published after 13 years
Chinese researchers say an IVF technique called pronuclear transfer can safely produce a viable pregnancy...
Two genes linked to breast cancer survival
Researchers in the UK have discovered two key genes capable of predicting 10-year disease-specific survival outcomes in breast cancer patients...
Exome project reveals 3230 disease genes
More than 3230 genes with the propensity to cause disease have been identified in an analysis of the largest exome dataset yet...
Reviews
Event Review: Ethical questions in mitochondrial donation
This transnational symposium on mitochondrial donation covered issues ranging from methodological concerns about the development of policy governing mitochondrial donation, to particular ethical puzzles raised by the implementation of the procedures themselves...
Comment
Fertility education in schools — a teenager's perspective
by Phoebe Thornhill
As a current sixth-form student, I am well-acquainted with the format of sex education in secondary schools. The single take-home message is: 'Don’t have unprotected sex because you’ll get pregnant, get an STI, or both.' I think that this needs to change...