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The Government’s new policy would offer people the option of keeping or disposing of their eggs at 10-year intervals, for a maximum storage period of 55 years.

We – jointly with the French and German ethics councils – call on governments and stakeholders around the world to put ethical considerations at the core of any future discussion and of the development of global governance of heritable genome editing.

Prompted by an investigation by the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire show, the Labour Party has called fo…

A debate takes place in the House of Lords today recognising 2018 as the 40th anniversary of the bir…

An independent inquiry by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics has concluded that editing the DNA of a …

From Monday, non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) for Down’s, Edwards’, and Patau’s syndromes …

From Monday 30 April, pregnant women in Wales will be offered non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) f…