Possible cancer risk with frozen IVF embryos
A study of more than 8 million children in Nordic countries suggests that children who begin life as frozen embryos (FET) may have a higher...
Medicos push back against post-Dobbs abortion restrictions
Supporters of legal abortion are fighting back in medical journals as well as at the ballot box and on social media. The consistent theme is...
Fertility fraud laws could have far-reaching consequences
A wave of new laws in American states banning “fertility fraud” could have important effects upon informed consent in medical practice. With the help of...
Fertility watchdog wants to overhaul UK laws on embryos
The UK’s fertility regulator is seeking to liberalise techniques for manipulating human embryos in assisted reproduction and research. The Guardian describes its plans as “the...
Israel studying regulation of post-mortem sperm retrieval
Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, is considering legislation to regulate the increasingly common practice of post-mortem sperm retrieval to enable grandparents to have descendants. Under the...
War or no war, Ukrainian surrogacy is up and running and open for business
Despite the war with Russia, surrogacy agencies in Ukraine are still accepting clients for their surrogate mothers. An article in Toronto’s Globe and Mail paints...
The wisdom of Albert Tochilovsky, owner of Ukraine’s biggest surrogacy business
Since the Kyiv-based IVF clinic BioTexCom is the probably the largest surrogacy agency in the world, its owner’s thoughts about the future of assisted reproduction...
A UK feminist throws a grenade into the surrogacy debate
Julie Bindel, one of Britain’s best-known radical feminists, has written a savage critique of commercial surrogacy in Prospect, a progressive magazine. Bindel is a “political...
Israeli scientists create ‘synthetic’ mouse embryos
Israeli scientists have created the world’s first “synthetic embryos”. They used mouse stem cells to create embryos, nurtured them in an artificial “womb”, and grew...
After Dobbs, abortion needs ethicists, not Twitter heroes
After the US Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, abortion is the hottest issue in town. One bioethicist writing in the American Journal of...
Sperm donor makes his ‘royal progress’ in Queensland
Here is a real-life scenario begging for a novelist or a reality-TV producer. Adam Hooper is a 37-year-old man from Perth who has 2 children...
Another step forward towards artificial gametes
Have scientists moved a step closer to in vitro gametogenesis – creating human embryos from artificial eggs and sperm? In a paper published earlier this...