Spanish Clinic Launches Embryo Adoption Scheme
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A Spanish fertility clinic launched a scheme on Thursday to let women adopt frozen embryos to save them from scientific research just as Spain makes investigation with embryo stem cells fully legal.
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Italys new restrictive law on assisted reproduction, introduced in March this year which made it illegal for doctors to carry out pre-natal genetic diagnosis of embryos has created a diaspora of couples seeking ...
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BRUSSELS, Belgium - "It's a dream," proclaimed the beaming 32-year-old new mother Friday as she cuddled her day-old baby girl, born following a pioneering ovarian tissue transplant performed after the woman was made infertile by chemotherapy.    Doctors hailed the breakthrough procedure, saying it sent a "big message of hope" to cancer patients who have lost their fertility and could one day allow women to delay motherhood beyond menopause...
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Spain's Socialist government announced details of a bill that that would allow parents of a child with an incurable disease to conceive another baby to help save the sibling's life.
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Science & environment: Scientists create human embryos in procedure to try to fight serious inherited diseases
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British scientists say they have created human embryos containing DNA from two women and a man
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A small California company set up by an unnamed investor and a top fertility doctor burst into the stem cell field on Thursday with a report that it is the first lab to clone human embryos and prove it.
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A growing number of couples are screening embryos to detect a predisposition to cancers that may or may not develop later in life.
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A County Down couple get the go-ahead to begin embryo screening treatment which could save their son's life.
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A human genetics clinic said on Thursday it had developed 18 new lines of disease-carrying embryonic stem cells and was offering them to researchers eager to study their potential for treating inherited diseases.
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British authorities on Thursday approved scientists' use of animal eggs to create human stem cells, a ruling that will boost the supply of stem cells for research.
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WASHINGTON -- A procedure that encourages an egg to begin embryo development without being fertilized could suggest a new way to produce stem cells, at least for certain patients.
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Screening embryos for chromosomal defects, a fast-growing practice aimed at helping older women to have a baby, in fact reduces the chance of a successful pregnancy, doctors reported here on Wednesday.
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A California company said on  Thursday it used cloning technology to make five human embryos,  with the eventual hope of making matched stem cells for  patients.
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A British fertility clinic has overcome   a shortage of home-grown sperm by importing it from Denmark.
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The British government has approved a plan to allow women to donate eggs for stem cell and cloning research and to be compensated for it &#151; an action that scientists hope will improve the supply of eggs.
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A Belgian woman has given birth to the  first baby born after an ovarian tissue transplant, a medical  breakthrough that brings hope to young cancer patients whose  fertility may be damaged by treatment.