Raffling motherhood on mother’s day : will it be buy one, get one free next?
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 one of the attendees will be ‘awarded a free single donor egg IVF cycle’ as an added commercial incentive to attend the seminar. ‘The capacity...
Read Moreraffling motherhood on mother’s day : will it be buy one, get one free next?
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 one of the attendees will be ‘awarded a free single donor egg IVF cycle’ as an added commercial incentive to attend the seminar. ‘The...
Read MorePGD decision time at the HFEA
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 CORE correctly anticipated last week, the Authority has re-stated its official position that discarding healthy embryos is entirely ...
Read More116 current reasons to discard human embryos – hfea has a little list
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 least because some of the identified diseases are definitely not life-threatening. Nevertheless all the embryos in question will be discarded, or as the ...
Read MoreViable mice from induced pluripotent stem cells? Pros and cons
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 in the first generation of offspring but these seem to have disappeared in subsequent generations. The novelty of this process, which has already been achieved...
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