PET Annual Conference 2023 – online but not derailed
The recent announcement of further UK rail strikes means we have had to make the agonising decision to move next week's PET Annual Conference entirely online...
The recent announcement of further UK rail strikes means we have had to make the agonising decision to move next week's PET Annual Conference entirely online...
The current legal framework on which compensation caps for gamete donors is based has created a situation where foreign donors are compensated less than those in the UK, explains Julian Hitchcock...
The fast rise of the biobanking sector in China is discussed by Professor Joy Zhang, who has studied China's life science governance for twenty years...
Dr Calum MacKellar discusses the biological, moral and legal status of stem-cell-based embryonic entities...
by BioNews
This film documents a PET event marking the centenary of JBS Haldane's 'Daedalus', a lecture – subsequently a book – that pioneered the idea of in vitro fertilisation...
by Dr Leen Bastiaansen and 2 others
In June 2023, Anke Wesenbeek, a 30-year-old Belgian donor-conceived woman won a landmark court case after a year-long battle to gain information about her paternal heritage...
Six perspectives on the ethical questions around genome editing are explored in this film commissioned by the Francis Crick Institute...
by BioNews
This film documents a PET event about a change that will have consequences for people involved in and affected by donor conception...
UK Biobank has written to all GP practices in England requesting the release of primary care data for consented participants...
The focus by paediatricians on the FDA's recent committee to discuss artificial placenta technology is on the fetus/baby, but the ethical considerations should be much wider than that argues Dr Elizabeth Chloe Romanis…
BioNews, published by the Progress Educational Trust (PET), provides news and comment on genetics, assisted conception, embryo/stem cell research and related areas.