FILM: 40 Years of Egg Donation and Counting – What Have We Learned? What Happens Next?
This film documents a PET event marking 40 years since the announcement – in Australia – that a child had been born following egg donation for the first time...
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FILM: Mary Warnock at 100 – The Architect of Embryo Law
This film documents a PET event marking the 100th birthday of the late Baroness Mary Warnock...
Podcast Review: The Irish Times – Why is postmortem sperm retrieval soaring in Israel?
'Families are told your son is dead but we can preserve his sperm'. Zeenat Beebeejaun, PhD student at the University of Birmingham Dubai, reviews a news podcast by the Irish Times exploring how Israeli grandparents are creating grandchildren from their dead sons' sperm...
PET Podcast: 10 Years of Womb Transplants – What Have We Learned? What Does the Future Hold?
Bringing you PET events as a podcast. In the 23rd episode of its podcast, PET marks 10 years since the first live birth following a uterus transplant with Professor Mats Brännström, Professor J Richard Smith, Isabel Quiroga, Eleanor Findlater and Dr Natasha Hammond-Browning...
FILM: Counselling and Assisted Reproduction – When, Why and by Whom Should It Be Offered?
This film documents a PET event about different types of counselling that are sought, offered, recommended or required in relation to fertility treatment, gamete donation, and assisted conception more broadly...
FILM: Small Change – Is It Time to Reconsider Compensation for Gamete Donors?
This film documents a PET event about levels of compensation for donors of sperm or eggs...
Image by Bill Sanderson via the Wellcome Collection, © Wellcome Trust Ltd 1990. Depicts Laocoön and his family (from Greek and Roman mythology) entwined in coils of DNA.
What Is the Embryo's Special Status in Law?
The third session of the PET 2024 Annual Conference, 'What Is the Embryo's Special Status in Law?', examined human embryos from a legal perspective...
What Is the Embryo's Special Status in Ethics?
The fourth session of the PET 2024 Annual Conference, 'What Is the Embryo's Special Status in the Lab?', tackled ethical aspects of the status of the human embryo...
Image by K Hardy via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human embryo at the blastocyst stage (about six days after fertilisation) 'hatching' out of the zona pellucida.
What Is the Embryo's Special Status in the Lab?
The second session of the PET 2024 Annual Conference, 'What Is the Embryo's Special Status in the Lab?', focused on the opportunities and challenges presented by using human embryos in research...
Image by Sílvia Ferreira, Cristina Lopo and Eileen Gentleman via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a single human stem cell embedded within a porous hydrogel matrix (false colour).
Futureproofing ethical SCBEM innovation
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has published recommendations calling for clear legislative action to differentiate stem cell-based embryos from embryos and to safeguard against ethical breaches...
