CORRECTION
In the previous issue of BioEdge (Number 126, June 25), we erred in identifying the leader of a Brisbane research team working on clinical diagnostic...
SPECIAL ESHRE SUPPLEMENT
The annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology took place in Berlin earlier in the week. After the lurid stories which...
Monash device could screen for all genetic diseases
Researchers at Monash University have used gene chip technology to develop a 100% accurate test for one of the most common mutations for cystic fibrosis....
First pregnancy from frozen ovaries
A woman who underwent aggressive chemotherapy and radiotherapy has become pregnant naturally after fertility doctors reimplanted strips of her frozen ovarian tissue. The woman is...
Expansion of EU will lead to “fertility tourism”
The eastwards expansion of the European Union will result in couples in Western Europe travelling to countries like Slovenia and Hungary for IVF treatment which...
Most embryo donation parents don’t tell their child
Only a third of parents whose child began life as a donated embryo tell them about their origins, compared with 100% of parents of adopted...
Human stem cells used to treat rats with Parkinson’s
Israeli scientists have found that human embryonic stem cells have helped rats with symptoms of Parkinson's disease to recover. Dr Benjamin Reubinoff told the ESHRE...
First Australian human embryonic stem cells created
A Sydney IVF clinic has created Australia's first embryonic stem cell line from a left-over IVF embryo donated by a couple interested in scientific research....
Japan debates rules for organ donation
Faced with a lengthening list of candidates for heart transplants and a tiny list of donors, Japanese patients are going overseas to the US, Canada...
Bride famine arrives in India
Indian social scientists are predicting a rise in sexual violence and wife-sharing because 40 million aborted girls are missing from the population. It is estimated...
Nobel laureates back Kerry as white knight of US science
Forty-eight Nobel-Prize winning scientists have backed Democrat presidential hopeful John Kerry as the best hope for American science. President George Bush, they charge, had short-...
Freezing eggs could be big business for US MBA student
A Harvard Business School student has founded a company which promises to extend women's fertility with the unproven technique of egg-freezing. Christina Jones, 34, who...