The Sunday Times draws attention today, Mother’s Day (March 14), to a co-operative initiative between a US and a UK fertility clinic focusing on the marketing of human eggs to UK infertility patients. There will be a seminar in London this week and... 

The Sunday Times draws attention today, Mother’s Day (March 14), to a co-operative initiative between a US and a UK fertility clinic focusing on the marketing of human eggs to UK infertility patients. There will be a seminar in London... 

No surprises from the HFEA in today’s decision to permit exclusion and non-disclosure testing, and to deregulate later onset, lower penetrance conditions. The relevant regulations governing pre-implantation genetic diagnosis become yet more permissive.

As... 

The Sunday Times coverage (www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/genetics/article6999861.ece) of the various genetic conditions which can be tested prior to the implantation of an in vitro embryo, has generated considerable debate, not... 

Articles appeared today in ‘Nature’ and ‘Cell Stem Cell’ reporting the creation of generations of mice using reprogrammed skin tissue from adult mice by two different teams of Chinese researchers (*). There were abnormalities... 

I spent 45 minutes on a radio programme last night, invited allegedly to discuss the decision of US President Obama to allow federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research.

Instead I sat with a wry smile, as male after male listener... 

The UK media is reporting a stem cell breakthrough that could end the ethical battle over the use of human embryos.

1. Some facts

The most recent breakthrough in the stem cell technology relates to induced pluripotent... 

Frozen mice and men …

The recent news that scientists have been able to clone mice using brain tissue frozen 16 years ago, produced a ‘Daily Mail’ front page, entitled ‘Cloning from the Grave’.

(www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1082776/Cloning-grave-Scientists-create-new-life-mouse-frozen-16-YEARS.html)

The... 

Gordon Brown’s suicide mission as he distances himself from public opinion

1. Brown on stem cells

Given all the other problems he has to face in his precarious leadership of the Labour Party one can almost understand... 

New poll – Gordon Brown risks further unpopularity by pressing ahead with controversial Bill

A new ComRes poll commissioned on behalf of CORE (Comment on Reproductive Ethics) released today shows that almost eight in ten...