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Could newborns solve the kidney shortage crisis?
Kidneys from newborn babies could be a “game-changing” solution to organ shortage crisis, according to an American study. According to a paper presented at the...
Chinese sperm bank pushes the boundaries in its marketing
With a birth rate of 1.09 and a declining population, there is a sense of urgency in China about reversing its dismal demographics. The IVF...
Chinese scientists grow humanized kidneys in pigs
Chinese scientists have successfully created chimeric embryos containing a combination of human and pig cells. When transferred into surrogate pig mothers, the developing humanized kidneys...
People born from donor gametes in UK will be able to doorknock their dad
As of October 1, 18-year-olds in the United Kingdom conceived with donor gametes will be able to find out who their donor is. The law...
British teen dies after doctors refuse her request for experimental treatment
ST, the 19-year-old woman at the centre of a dispute about mental competence and healthcare in Britain, has died of heart failure. As reported in...
Dodging a bullet: how a report recommending ‘chestfeeding’ and inclusive pronouns almost became the norm in British maternity wards
A transgender maternity report commissioned by public health authorities in the UK last year made headlines by recommending the use of more inclusive language such...
Bioethics writer warns of ‘public health imperialism’
After three innocent children were gunned down in three months in the American state of New Mexico, the Governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham, announced a 30-day...
Euthanasia nurses in Belgium smother patient when lethal drugs fail to work
Alexina Wattiez wasn’t supposed to die like this. The 36-year-old Belgian woman was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 2021. She deteriorated rapidly and was in...
Georgia will shut down its commercial surrogacy industry in 2024
The war in Ukraine is changing the geography of commercial surrogacy. Before the war, Ukraine was the surrogacy capital of Europe, with good medical care,...
Egg freezing and the mating gap
Why are women freezing their eggs in record numbers? A new book from NYU Press, Motherhood on Ice: The Mating Gap and Why Women Freeze...
Canada’s surrogacy industry has a seedy side
Commercial surrogacy is a many-faceted problem, ethically, medically, and politically. One feature which seldom surfaces in sanitised accounts of surrogacy is the business side. As...
Israeli team creates synthetic human embryos without eggs or sperm
An Israeli research team at the Weizmann Institute of Science has created artificial human embryos from stem cells cultured in the lab – and managed...