Survey claims that euthanasia is common in NZ
Many general practitioners are killing or hastening the deaths of their patients, according to an anonymous survey in the New Zealand Medical Journal. Thirty-nine of...
UK doctors want to screen embryos for breast and bowel cancer
UK scientists are soon to apply for a licence to screen IVF embryos for breast and bowel cancer genes so that parents will not place...
“The Plastinator” gets under people’s skin
A Los Angeles museum is displaying the controversial "Body Worlds" exhibition of Dr Gunther von Hagens. More than 200 human specimens, about 25 of them...
After six years, IVF blunder still smoulders
A white woman who unwittingly became a surrogate mother for a black couple has settled for an undisclosed amount with a New York IVF clinic....
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....