Publications

Exploring the practical, legal, and ethical considerations raised by surrogacy.

An overview of the key policy, social, and ethical issues around egg freezing and social egg freezing.

This report sets out guiding principles for ethical use, and recommendations for policy and practice should genome editing become available as a reproductive option for prospective parents.

Whole genome sequencing is cheaper and faster than ever, but interpreting the results is difficult, time-consuming, and expensive. Find out about the ethical issues raised.

Exploring whether, after 25 years, there may be persuasive reasons to review the legal time limit for maintaining human embryos in research.

This report considers how NIPT could change the way we view pregnancy, disability and difference, and what the wider consequences of its increasing use might be.

This report considers the interests of people affected by donor conception and makes recommendations about what can be done to support, encourage and empower those making decisions about the sharing of information.

This report examines the ethical issues raised by new techniques that aim to prevent the transmission of maternally-inherited mitochondrial DNA disorders.