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Ethical concerns raised over human cells grown in monkey embryos UK experts have called for public discussion and debate about the ethical and regulatory challenges on human-animal chimeras. 15 April, 2021 15:00 US scientists have grown human cells in monkey embryos with the aim to understand more about how cells develop and communicate with each other. Researchers from the Salk Institute in California have produced what is known as monkey-human chimeras, with hum...

Dr Julian Koplin BioNews Comment articles written by Dr Julian Koplin: Page 1 of 1 Australia is on the cusp of legalising mitochondrial donation... [Read More] Tel: +44 (0)20 7278 7870 Email: admin@progress.org.uk Limited company registered in England and Wales no 07405980 Registered charity no 1139856 Website initially design by Thunder Progress Educational Trust

Elpida Fragouli BioNews Review articles written by Elpida Fragouli: Page 1 of 1 As a human geneticist Ive always been interested in anything DNA-related, whether this is a book, research paper, film, or documentary. I never expected, however, that DNA would be the focus of a semi-documentary/semi-intellectual reality TV show, hosted by Stacey Dooley... [Read More]

FILM: The Business of Egg Freezing – From Bluster to Best Practice This film documents the Progress Educational Trust (PET) event The Business of Egg Freezing: From Bluster to Best Practice, produced in partnership with University College Londons EGA Institute for Womens Health. The event was also sponsored by the British Fertility Society, CooperSurgical, the London Egg Bank, the University of Cambridges Reproductive Sociology Research Group, Combined Academic Publishers and Reproduction an...

Its the modern dilemma a growing number of us are facing - what to do with your £10k eggs on ice when your biological clock has stopped ticking. Here we meet midlife women faced with destroying their eggs (because they no longer want a baby) Sarah Murray, 49, has 11 eggs that she froze back in 2015 but is unlikely to use She has been left with the difficult decision of what to do with her eggs on ice Sarah spent nearly £10,000 but has an issue with becoming a mother close to 50 Carla Poole, 4...

Fertility clinics giving women false sense of security over egg freezing Websites making misleading claims about chances of pregnancy, researchers say, with one suggesting success rate could be up to 80 per cent 12 March 2021 • 7:00pm Fertility clinics are giving women a “false sense of security” that egg freezing will guarantee them a baby in future, experts claim. Researchers have criticised clinic websites which make “misleading” claims about the likelihood of egg freezing leading ...

Gender based prohibitions in the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act Appeared in BioNews 1086 The act, as amended in 2008, includes provisions and prohibitions which have been at the heart of the Progress Educational Trust (PET)s activity since the charity was founded in 1992. PET has campaigned for and influenced changes to the HFE Act on a number of topical matters; these include amending legislation in the UK to permit mitochondrial donation for women with mitochondrial disease and removi...

Why financial and medical decision-making must remain separate in UK fertility Appeared in BioNews 1084 Fertility treatment in the UK – whether accessed via the NHS or privately – has always been considered safe, robust and research-led. It has been regulated for the last 30 years, ensuring that the industry has patients best interests at heart. But recent weeks have seen a major shift in how private fertility treatment can be paid for, with a major clinic group now offering multi-cycle a...

The 14-day limit should be extended to 28 days Appeared in BioNews 1083 The 14-day rule, initially proposed in 1979 in the USA, was first recommended in the UK by the Warnock Committee in 1984. It limits research on intact human embryos to prior to 14 days gestation or the beginning of primitive streak formation and is part of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Acts of 1990 and 2008 (HFE Acts). This legislation has been successfully implemented in the UK, but also in several other countrie...

TV Review: Stand Up to Infertility Appeared in BioNews 1083 A question to all men: Do you feel your fertility is linked to how much of a man you are? As absurd as the above question sounds, this was one of the main themes in BBCs new documentary: Rhod Gilberts Stand up to Infertility. This overly falsified rhetoric reflects a very dangerous and scientifically ludicrous misconception that seems to echo monolithically across the globe. To think, with all our achievements in inclusion and diversit...