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Relationship breakdown during fertility treatment: What happens to my embryo?
Relationship breakdown during fertility treatment: What happens to my embryo? 2 August 2021 By Sarah Wood-Heath Partner at Clarke Willmott specialising in family and modern parenting law. Appeared in BioNews 1106 Since 1991, the number of IVF cycles has increased significantly with success rates also growing. With freezing techniques improving, according to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), frozen embryo transfers continue to increase year-on-year.
Transgender girl's sperm to be stored until court date
Transgender girl's sperm to be stored until court date 14 September 2020 Appeared in BioNews 1063 The NHS has agreed to continue storing a dead teen's frozen sperm until her mother can bring the case to court. As reported in BioNews last week Louise Anderson is launching a legal bid to stop the destruction of her late daughter's sperm, which the fertility clinic are obliged to destroy according to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990.
Common chromosomal mutations occur in various cancers
Common chromosomal mutations occur in various cancers 7 September 2020 Appeared in BioNews 1062 Different cancers go through the same genetic changes during their development, according to new research. In a recent study, researchers from the Francis Crick Institute, London, and the University College London (UCL) Cancer Institute found that there are similarities between the way different cancers acquire chromosomal changes and evolve.
China collects DNA from millions of men and boys
China collects DNA from millions of men and boys 22 June 2020 Appeared in BioNews 1052 Chinese authorities are collecting blood samples from across the country to build a genetic map of its roughly 700 million males. A new Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) report describes how Chinese law enforcement has been collecting samples to build a DNA database to track a man's male relatives using only his blood, saliva or other genetic material.
Man who gave birth still legally a mother
Man who gave birth still legally a mother 4 May 2020 Appeared in BioNews 1045 A trans man who gave birth, has been unsuccessful in his latest attempt to be registered as his child's 'father' on the birth certificate. The Court of Appeal has upheld the 2019 High Court decision that McConnell is a 'male mother' – a person of the male gender who has given birth (see BioNews 1017).
Chinese scientist who created genome-edited babies jailed
Chinese scientist who created genome-edited babies jailed 6 January 2020 Appeared in BioNews 1029 Professor He Jiankui, the Chinese scientist who created the world's first genome-edited babies, has been sentenced to three years in prison for violating medical regulations. According to the state news agency Xinhua, the court in Shenzhen, China, found Professor He guilty of illegal medical practices, fining him 3 million yuan (£327,360) in addition to the sentence.
Junk DNA may affect cancer risk
Junk DNA may affect cancer risk 9 December 2019 Appeared in BioNews 1027 Scientists have found that genetic variation in regions of DNA that do not code for proteins, previously characterised as 'junk DNA', may affect a person's risk to develop a form of inherited cancer. The research, which was led by an international group of scientists, was published in the British Journal of Cancer and sheds new light on why some people develop cancer more than others.
Trouble in store?
Trouble in store? 4 November 2019 Appeared in BioNews 1022 The Progress Educational Trust (PET) event 'Trouble in Store? How Not to Break the Law when Storing Embryos and Gametes' took place at Hill Dickinson LLP in London on 29 October 2019. Sarah Norcross, PET's director, introduced the event by asking whether the regulations ought to be made clearer.
Re TT and YY: When a 'Father' is a 'Mother'.
Re TT and YY: When a 'Father' is a 'Mother'. 7 October 2019 Appeared in BioNews 1018 In Re TT and YY [2019] EWHC 1823 (Fam), the UK High Court decided that a trans man (called TT in court documents), could not be named as a 'father' on his child's (YY) birth certificate because he gave birth to YY. Instead, he had to be named as the 'mother'. The facts of Re TT and YY have been previously documented (see BioNews 1017).
NHS group denies single women IVF treatment
NHS group denies single women IVF treatment 27 August 2019 Appeared in BioNews 1012 An NHS group has banned single women from accessing funded fertility treatment (see this week's Comment). NHS South East London Sustainability and Transformation Partnership's (STP's) policy refuses IVF to women not in a 'stable relationship' on the grounds that it would cause a 'both the child and the mother' a 'known disadvantage'.
China approves ethics advisory group almost a year after CRISPR scandal
China approves ethics advisory group almost a year after CRISPR scandal 12 August 2019 Appeared in BioNews 1010 China has approved a national research ethics committee to advise its government, following the 'CRISPR-babies' scandal last year. The country's policymaking body gave the go-ahead last month, according to an article in Nature News. The Central Comprehensively Deepening Reforms Commission of the Chinese Communist Party, will set up a national committee.
Italian IVF clinic violated woman's human rights by forcing pregnancy
Italian IVF clinic violated woman's human rights by forcing pregnancy 1 April 2019 Appeared in BioNews 993 Italy violated a woman's right to health after the country's fertility laws led to a forced pregnancy, the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights concluded on Wednesday. The response, given in Geneva, was to a case brought by an unnamed couple who had exhausted domestic legal avenues in Italy.
US hospital sued for keeping embryo without mother's knowledge
US hospital sued for keeping embryo without mother's knowledge 25 March 2019 Appeared in BioNews 992 A Massachusetts woman is suing a hospital for storing her embryos for years without telling her. Marisa Cloutier-Bristol began IVF treatment with her then-husband in 2004 but was told it was not possible to proceed because all the embryos were abnormal. She believed the embryos were discarded, but in April 2017, she was invoiced $500 for their storage.
BBC Sounds: Carrying my friend's baby - Podcast Review
BBC Sounds: Carrying my friend's baby - Podcast Review 25 March 2019 Appeared in BioNews 992 We are thrown into the waiting room with Emma and Jane who are attending an IVF consultation for a gestational surrogacy arrangement. The childhood friends are laughing and reminiscing about how it all came about. The relaxed attitude shared by Jane and Emma provides a light-hearted podcast on surrogacy, which is likened to 'extreme babysitting’ and acting as human 'oven'.
China drafts new regulations on 'high risk' biomedical technologies
China drafts new regulations on 'high risk' biomedical technologies 4 March 2019 Appeared in BioNews 989 The Chinese government has announced new regulations on genomic technologies in response to a Chinese scientist's claim to have created genome-edited babies. The reforms, announced on Tuesday by the Chinese National Health Commission, target 'high-risk biomedical technologies' and will apply to both germline and somatic cell research.
South Norfolk bucks national trend to increase funding for IVF
South Norfolk bucks national trend to increase funding for IVF 11 February 2019 Appeared in BioNews 986 South Norfolk Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) has decided to increase IVF funding for eligible couples to receive two cycles of treatment rather than none. The decision has been made despite the recent trend of CCGs cutting funding in many areas of England (see BioNews 983).
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