Watchdog finds Australian IVF clinics are misleading users
A number of Australian IVF clinics are potentially misleading patients about their success rates, a consumer watchdog has warned...
News
Missouri court rules frozen embryos are property, not people
An appeal court in Missouri has ruled that a divorced couple's frozen embryos should be treated as marital property and not as people, under the state's divorce laws...
Online calculator predicts IVF success
An online calculator that can estimate the cumulative success rate of IVF over multiple cycles has been released...
CRISPR partially restores sight in blind rats
Scientists in the US have used a genome-editing technique to partially restore vision in blind rats...
China begins first CRISPR human therapy trial
Chinese scientists have injected CRISPR/Cas9 gene-edited cells into a human for the first time...
Disgraced stem cell entrepreneur may be offering therapies abroad
Italian prosecutors are investigating whether discredited stem-cell entrepreneur Davide Vannoni is continuing to offer his unproven therapies in eastern Europe...
Gene variants may give taste for salt
Gene variants may explain why some people eat more salt than recommended...
Reviews
Image by Bill Sanderson via the Wellcome Collection, © Wellcome Trust Ltd 1990. Depicts Laocoön and his family (from Greek and Roman mythology) entwined in coils of DNA.
Book Review: Where Science and Ethics Meet — Dilemmas at the Frontiers of Medicine and Biology
This introduction to ethics in medicine is no dreary textbook, but is a stimulating conversation starter and a welcome addition to any ethics bookshelf...
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Altruistic anonymous uterus donation — altruism at the highest level?
by Dr Natasha Hammond-Browning
Sixteen uterus donations have occurred worldwide, and so far only a research team in Sweden has carried out transplants that successfully produced live births. The Swedish trial involved donations from living persons...
Boy or Girl? Sex, Law and Certainty: The Intersex Problem
by Ed Horowicz
Sex is one of the first identifying genetic characteristics that a new baby presents to parents and to society. But the medical and legal requirement to conform to binary biological genetic sex results in the immediate violation of the physical integrity of the intersex child...