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A British MP is demanding a Government inquiry into the safety of a form of IVF (in vitro fertilisation) which has been linked with a higher risk of birth defects. More than 20,000 couples

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An Australian study has identified the risk of major birth defects associated with different types of assisted reproductive technology. In the most comprehensive study of its kind in the world, res

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Soft drinks giant PepsiCo has announced that it will not use aborted foetal cell lines to develop flavour enhancers for its products. Debi Vinnedge, Executive Director of Children of God for Life,

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Fertility-boosting drugs could more than double the risk of subsequent offspring developing childhood leukaemia, academics have warned. And other studies have found that the incidence of birth defe

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The UK fertility regulator is seeking to boost the supply of human eggs and sperm by reducing the taboo around gamete “donation”. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA)

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Italy’s health minister has ordered an investigation into an apparent mechanical failure at a Rome hospital that caused the destruction of 94 frozen embryos, as well as eggs and sperm samples

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A controversial scientific conference which featured pro-embryonic stem cell researchers and was co-sponsored by the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life has been cancelled, just a month bef

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The British Medical Association (BMA) has published a report laying out options to increase the supply of organs for transplant. Some of the options considered are highly controversial, including t

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A controversial technique known as “three-parent IVF” came a step closer in the UK after the Department of Health asked the fertility regulator there to conduct a public consultation in

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A new discovery may in future help comatose and locked-in patients to communicate. For some of them, this may mean the difference between receiving continued care or being left to starve to death.

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