Film Review: The Pod Generation
A young New York couple begin the tech-paved path to parenthood...
A young New York couple begin the tech-paved path to parenthood...
Dr Dan Jacobson finds this 'high-minded, critically-polarising, French, visually-stunning-yet-powerfully-moody exploration of human existence' bold, fascinating and more than occasionally unintelligible...
The scope for artificial intelligance to improve our understanding of, and application of, genomics is discussed in this latest G Word Podcast, from Genomics England...
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…
As stem-cell-based embryo models (SCBEMs) become increasingly complex, they also raise big questions – how do we define a human embryo, and what limits should be placed on SCBEM research?...
Heralding the technology behind SCBEMs as 'one of the 21st century's most dramatic scientific developments', Professor Emily Jackson's lecture was packed with fascinating legal and ethical commentary...
by Rebecca Robb
This ELSI Friday Forum focused on polygenic risk scores: an assessment and prediction of an individual's risk with regards to certain genetic traits or illnesses based on their phenotype...
The Guardian asked the question, 'Why are there so few Black sperm donors in the USA?' and turned to Angela Stepancic, a Black woman who recently navigated her way through the complex fertility system in the USA to help answer this question and many others...
ITVX's new four-part documentary, Born From the Same Stranger features the stories of donor-conceived people looking for information about their half-siblings and donors. Charlotte Dore reviews the first episode to air...
The latest novel by Sebastian Faulks is a thriller revolving around a billionaire entrepreneur who plans to stretch the boundaries of ethics...
BioNews, published by the Progress Educational Trust (PET), provides news and comment on genetics, assisted conception, embryo/stem cell research and related areas.