US hospital sued for keeping embryo without mother's knowledge
A Massachusetts woman is suing a hospital for storing her embryos for years without telling her...
by Hugo Wolfe
A Massachusetts woman is suing a hospital for storing her embryos for years without telling her...
The DNA of sperm taken directly from the testicles of infertile men is as healthy as that of sperm ejaculated by fertile men, suggests a new study...
Stronger tails help human sperm in their race to fertilise eggs, mathematical modelling suggests...
A healthy female monkey, called Grady, has been born using sperm isolated from transplanted testicular tissue, marking the first time a live primate has been produced using this technique...
Matt Hancock, secretary of state for health, has been widely criticised by scientists and doctors for misconstruing the results of a genetic test that he took...
A man travelling from Malaysia has been caught at Mumbai airport attempting to smuggle a live human embryo in his suitcase to a fertility clinic in India...
by Rachel Siden
Baroness Mary Warnock, a pioneer of embryology research ethics and a patron of the Progress Educational Trust, has died at the age of 94...
An advisory committee to the World Health Organization (WHO) has called for a global registry to track all research involving human genome editing, during its first meeting in Geneva...
by Hugo Wolfe
We are thrown into the waiting room with Emma and Jane who are attending an IVF consultation for a gestational surrogacy arrangement. The childhood friends are laughing and reminiscing about how it all came about...
BioNews, published by the Progress Educational Trust (PET), provides news and comment on genetics, assisted conception, embryo/stem cell research and related areas.
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Baroness Mary Warnock: An awesome intellect and joyous human being
by Dr Sue Avery
It is November 2015, and the woman described by the Daily Mail as having 'a monstrous ego that has destroyed so much of our moral and social heritage', is sitting, small and twinkly-eyed, on the sofa in her south London home, with Sarah Norcross (PET dire
Revolutionising reproduction: the future of fertility treatment
by Ana Hallgarten
The Progress Educational Trust (PET) symposium event 'Revolutionising Reproduction: The Future of Fertility Treatment' took place at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on the 19th March 2019...