Access to IVF in Lancashire and South Cumbria will be reduced to one cycle, the eight NHS Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) in the region have announced. Seven of the CCGs previously permitted two cycles...
The Canadian government has proposed updates to existing assisted reproduction law, including payment of expenses to gamete donors and surrogates...
Israel's parliament, the Knesset has rejected a bill to allow single men and gay couples equal access to surrogacy...
A US government agency has 'paused' a trial of stem cell treatment for heart failure following calls for 31 scientific papers to be retracted...
Older men are more likely to have children born prematurely, a study in the USA has found, while their partners are at higher risk of developing gestational diabetes...
The genome editing system, CRISPR/Cas9, may not be as successful in humans as hoped...
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the first consumer pharmacogenetic test, but not without crucial caveats...
Fertility treatment is big business within the UK. The ever-increasing demand for fertility services combined with the dwindling availability of NHS-funding for fertility treatment has created a booming 'fertility industry'...
The Handmaid's Tale portrays a societal response to infertility taken to the darkest of extremes. After watching the two seasons of it, I am struggling to link it to today's world without getting on my soapbox to protest for women's rights and the importa
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Whose genome is it anyway?
by Phil Booth
There are potentially great benefits to the use of genomic data. But there are also clear risks and concerns, due in large part to the particular characteristics of DNA and the vast amount of information that can be derived from it...