Mouse embryos grown in vitro by Israeli researchers
Another step in “an explosion of new techniques and ideas for studying early development” of human embryos comes from Israel, where researchers have successfully grown...
Russia’s liberal surrogacy laws under threat
‘Russia is not an incubator,’ says deputy speaker of Duma “Russia’s liberal surrogacy rules are under threat,” reports The Economist. The country has become a...
Britain’s first birth control clinic opened 100 years ago
But historians say that it is entangled with eugenics and racism Marie Stopes House in Whitfield Street near Tottenham Court Road was Britain's first family...
IVF dramatically increases twins around the world
But twins are associated with higher death rates amongst babies More human twins are being born than ever before, largely because of an increase in...
Call for commercial surrogacy to be legalized in Australia
There are no baby farms Down Under An Australian surrogacy lobby has called for commercial surrogacy to be legalised in Australia. It is currently banned...
Poor things! Britain’s aristocrats left behind by assisted reproduction reforms
Succession is through bloodlines The Marchioness of Bath and her sons John and Henry The Tatler, Britain’s lifestyle and gossip magazine for the upper crust,...
Confronting the frozen embryo dilemma
After 25 years, it’s still hard to let go Sometimes one gets more insight into the ethical stakes of assisted reproduction through stories rather than...
A Russian woman wants 105 surrogate babies – and has the money to pay for them
The Russian media has been abuzz with the news that a 23-year-old woman from Moscow named Christina Ozturk and her husband have embarked upon the...
What about the welfare of the baby in a surrogacy transaction?
Their interests are too often ignored, argues Singaporean academic "Ad for surrogate mothers, Burbank, California, USA" by gruntzooki is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 In debates over surrogacy, most...
Will human germline editing promote equality?
No, says Scottish bioethicist The topic of heritable genome editing is still very much alive, as Australia’s move towards legalising replacement mitochondrial therapy shows. An...
Another call to abolish the 14-day rule for human embryo research
It’s time to move on, says British bioethicist It's time to extend the legal limit on human embryo research from 14 to 28 days, because...
Spreading genes far and wide
There’s a very dark side to sperm donation A feature in the New York Times this week shows a very dark side of contemporary sperm...