The ethics of preimplantation genetic testing using polygenic scores
Academics from Oxford University discuss the ethics surrounding preimplantation genetic screening tests, including the use of polygenic risk scores...
by Dr Helena Carley and 4 others
Academics from Oxford University discuss the ethics surrounding preimplantation genetic screening tests, including the use of polygenic risk scores...
The BBC's decision to focus on the way that private clinics promote egg freezing to prospective customers, highlighted many of the challenges women face…
Two fertility clinic staff in Israel have been arrested over the transfer of embryos imported from Georgia, carrying a haemophilia B variant...
Bringing you PET events as a podcast. In the 16th episode of its podcast, PET looks at how best to understand and address welfare issues in the context of fertility treatment, with Professor Abha Maheshwari, Nicole McKeith, Dr Susheel Vani and Ruth Phillips...
A BBC documentary about social egg freezing has accused the UK fertility sector of misleading advertising....
by Ochuko Oyeye
This PET event looked at the ways that trauma can affect a patient's experience of treatment, and explored the ways that professionals who work with them can handle this...
by Roee Amir and 1 others
The latest war in Israel has seen debate sparked over whose desires and interests take precedent when determining whether to proceed with posthumous sperm retrieval…
by Hannah Flynn
Homerton Fertility Centre in London has had its licence suspended by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority because of 'significant concerns about the clinic'...
Alabama's legislature has passed a new law to protect fertility clinics from criminal charges following the State Supreme Court's ruling that embryos created through IVF are considered children...
Alabama legislators have agreed new laws to protect IVF after the state Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are considered unborn children...
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