A woman whose father has Huntington’s disease has won the right to sue his doctors for negligence, for failing to tell her...
Flushing the fallopian tubes of infertile women with poppyseed oil increases their chances of conceiving, according to a new study...
In two different studies, US scientists have succeeded in creating the stem cells which produce blood...
Fully functional 3D-printed ovaries have been successfully implanted in mice for the first time - enabling them to have offspring...
Two plant chemicals used in folk medicines block a key step in fertilisation, and may provide a potential alternative to hormone-based contraceptives...
A gene variant which gives protection against the most dangerous form of malaria has been identified...
A small, preliminary clinical trial has demonstrated safe and well-tolerated gene therapy to treat wet age-related macular degeneration...
A new method combining stem cell and gene therapy with ultrasound and microbubbles has demonstrated an efficient way to heal severe bone fractures...
Customers of Ancestry's consumer DNA tests may be unaware of what they have signed away, a US lawyer has suggested...
Olivia Montuschi's revised 'Telling and Talking' booklet aims to guide parents of donor conceived children aged 17 or over through the delicate process of disclosure...
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Donation is a hot topic
by Sarah Norcross
Last week we published the 900th edition of BioNews, we used this landmark achievement to put out a call for donations but many of you may have missed this as there was so much reaction to a piece we published on donor conception by Professor Guido Pennin
If you could alter the characteristics of future generations, would you do it?
by Dr Pete Mills
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics is seeking views on the reproductive uses of genome editing in humans. Regular readers of BioNews will know that genome editing (including with the CRISPR-Cas9 technique) offers a way of making precisely targeted modifica
Australia upholds the ban on sex selection: a partial victory in an ongoing struggle
by Dr Tereza Hendl
Australia recently saw important developments in the field of assisted reproductive technologies, as the National Health and Medical Research Council released its revision of the Part B of the Ethical Guidelines on the Use of Assisted Reproductive Tech