Lynne Bezant, 56, is set to become the UK's oldest mother of twins following IVF treatment using donor eggs. Professor Ian Craft, director of the London Gynaecology and Fertility Centre, last week defended the private clinic's decision to treat the couple, saying it had not broken any rules. But news...
UK fertility doctor Lord Winston has warned of an international crisis in science, brought about by animal rights protestors, the media and fellow scientists. Speaking last week at the Bioindustry Association, which represents the UK biotech industry, Winston accused scientists of being reluctant to engage with the media. He also...
The UK's House of Lords has approved proposals that will allow scientists aiming to develop new disease treatments to carry out research on early human embryo cells. The upper house of parliament approved the changes to the 1990 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act by 212 votes to 92, a larger...
A group of UK researchers has discovered that the entry point of a sperm as it fertilises a mouse egg determines the orientation of the resulting embryo. Their findings, published in Nature, could have implications for a technique used to treat male infertility, in which doctors create IVF embryos by...
Two fertility experts intend to use human cloning as a treatment for couples affected by male infertility. Dr Panayiotis M Zavos of the University of Kentucky and his Italian colleague Dr Severino Antinori announced their plans at press conferences held last week in Rome and Kentucky. The two doctors say...
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What's wrong with postmenopausal motherhood?
by Juliet Tizzard
I hadn't realised it, but apparently babies are the latest fashion accessory. The latest evidence of this is, we are told, the case of Lynne Bezant, who is pregnant with twins at the age of 56. As one might expect, Mrs Bezant's story provoked a rash of comments in the...