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It has been reported in the media that a small number of babies have been born in the UK following the use of mitochondrial DNA transfer techniques.

The Law Commission of England and Wales and the Scottish Law Commission have published their joint proposals for a new law and system to govern surrogacy in the UK.

The Nuffield Council on Bioethics’ new policy briefing suggests that an update to the current law on surrogacy in the UK is needed to help provide better support and protection to surrogates, surrogate children, and their families.

Frances Flinter – Council Member and Emeritus Professor of Clinical Genetics at Guy’s & St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust – talks us through some important issues to consider in relation to the introduction of whole genome sequencing of newborn babies.

The Nuffield Council on Bioethics is pleased to announce it has been commissioned by the Department of Health and Social Care to conduct an independent review of the disagreements that can arise between families and healthcare teams in the care of critically ill children in England.

The Australian Senate have passed a Bill, known as ‘Maeve’s law’, that will make it legal for those at risk of passing on a severe mitochondrial disorder to their offspring to avoid this outcome by the use of assisted reproductive techniques known as ‘mitochondrial donation’.

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 …

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