Woman wrongly listed as a child's mother following IVF
An Australian woman has been wrongly listed as the biological mother of a child born following IVF treatment...
An Australian woman has been wrongly listed as the biological mother of a child born following IVF treatment...
People carrying a gene variant linked to weight gain can benefit from weight-loss programmes just as much as those without it, research from Newcastle University has shown...
Thirteen Clinical Commissioning Groups are considering making cuts to IVF funding, potentially removing the procedure on the NHS in some areas...
by Ayala Ochert
China has opened a national gene bank that could ultimately be the world's biggest, eventually housing 300 million genetic samples...
A scientist in Sweden has become the first to edit genes in healthy human embryos...
Research has found that smoking can leave long-lasting epigenetic changes on the genome...
A new gene therapy technique using microRNAs has successfully prevented the spread of breast cancer in mice...
The One Show's Alex Jones explores her own fertility and looks at the emotional and financial costs of IVF, while also examining the technological and medical advances that may help more people become parents in the future...
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Parenthood following treatment with donor sperm
by Anest Mathias
In April 2009 the parenthood provisions of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 came into force. This governs parenthood following the use of donor gametes, including sperm...
Testing, Testing 1, 2, 3: PGS and PGD
by Dr Nicoletta Charolidi
There was a captivating debate around the emerging genetic choices, legal framework and ethical issues from the use of PGS (pre-implantation genetic screening) and PGD (pre-implantation genetic diagnosis) at this event produced by the Progress Educational Trust (PET)...