Participants in a national engagement programme have expressed support for using genomics to help prevent illness and personalise healthcare, while emphasising that its wider use must be underpinned by trust, fairness and transparency...
France will need to update its bioethics law by 2028. Adrien Bottacci explains what recent recommendations could mean for the 14-day limit on human embryo research, and for research involving stem-cell-based embryo models...
The High Court of Australia has ruled that a prisoner can apply to freeze her eggs while in custody, because egg freezing does not qualify as 'assisted reproductive technology'...
New data from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority shows that reported incidents, near misses and 'to be assigned' cases at UK fertility clinics rose by 19 percent in 2025/26, mostly due to an increase in low-severity events...
Surrogacy is not prohibited in Argentina, but there are no specific laws regulating it. Dr Paula Siverino Bavio explains how judges are dealing with complicated cases...
A UK judge has granted a parental order after illegal commercial surrogacy in China, despite 'strongly deprecating' the intended parents' choices...
Dr Andrea Martani discusses age cutoffs for IVF and fertility treatment: are they based on medical evidence or societal norms?...
The UK Government has announced plans to give employees in Great Britain a legal right to bereavement leave following pregnancy loss, including miscarriage and unsuccessful IVF embryo transfers...
The Texas Supreme Court has ruled that the intended parents of a seriously ill newborn can take the child back to California...
Following two recent cases where a donor withdrew consent after patients created embryos using their sperm, the medical and scientific directors of London Sperm Bank call for UK law to be updated...
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