Father's appeal denied over forged IVF consent
A man whose ex-partner forged his signature on consent papers to become pregnant using their frozen embryos after they had split up has lost his appeal for damages...
by Jen Willows
A man whose ex-partner forged his signature on consent papers to become pregnant using their frozen embryos after they had split up has lost his appeal for damages...
by Sandy Starr
The eminent developmental biologist Professor Robin Lovell-Badge has been appointed Chair of Trustees at the Progress Educational Trust (PET), the charity that publishes BioNews...
by Jen Willows
A remedial order has come into force that gives single people in the UK the same rights as couples to become the legal parents of their surrogate-born children...
Most surrogates think they should be able to claim reasonable expenses for carrying a child for someone else, a new report from Surrogacy UK has found. They also felt that legal parenthood should rest with the intended parents immediately after birth...
by Suzi Denton
A Canadian man whose twin girls were born via gestational surrogacy in Kenya is currently unable to bring his children home due to Canadian citizenship laws...
by Rachel Siden
Chinese scientists have allegedly lost track of patients who participated in a trial of a gene therapy for cancer...
A pilot study on a breath test to detect cancer has been launched in the UK...
The Irish government has said that it will dedicate funding to couples needing IVF and assisted reproduction treatments...
A whole-genome sequencing trial for newborns in the US has published its initial results, detecting a genetic childhood-onset condition in almost 10 percent of babies...
In 'Regulating Assisted Reproductive Technologies: New Horizons', Dr Amel Alghrani explores the future regulation of new reproductive technologies, specifically ectogenesis — gestating a fetus outside of a human body in an artificial womb, and uterus tr
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2019 at the Progress Educational Trust
by Sarah Norcross
PET welcomes its new Chair of Trustees and announces a packed programme of public events throughout the first few months of 2019...
Science marches on: key scientific developments in embryo research
by Dr Emma Laycock
'Science marches on' was the third session of the Progress Educational Trust (PET)'s Annual Conference 'Make Do or Amend: Should We Update UK Fertility and Embryo Law?'. The session focused on the key scientific developments within embryo research asking:
Society marches on: key social changes in assisted conception
by Dr Eleanor Taylor
It has been ten years since the 1990 Human Fertilisation and Embryology (HFE) Act was updated in 2008. Over the past ten years the laws governing fertility treatment and legal parenthood have remained largely static. But society has continued to evolve at