Our donor research action group have produced a report that makes a case for changes to regulated donor insemination. This centres around addressing inequitable access for people experiencing social infertility and the high costs associated with clinical donor insemination. They believe people should have the choice over whether to take the clinical route or informal, online route, to conceiving a child. inequities in access to the clinical route mean that many do not currently have choice.

Right now we have a unique opportunity to stop this industrial-scale torture: The UK government has proposed ending the use of cages for hens, and they have launched an official consultation to ask th...

British fertility clinics raise scientific and ethical objections over patients sending embryos’ genetic data abroad for analysis

This article investigates how Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing (DTCGT) affects people impacted by donor conception by bringing empirical data on how…

A generation on from the Warnock Report, the regulatory system it proposed remains largely intact, despite significant changes in the fertility sector, legal culture and wider society. In this arti...

Receive flexible professional training in bioethical and medico-legal theories by studying for an LLM in Healthcare Ethics & Law.

The regulatory status quo of donor anonymity renders the donor-conceived community vulnerable to harms associated with the (mis)use of their DNA data.

The regulatory status quo of donor anonymity renders the donor-conceived community vulnerable to harms associated with the (mis)use of their DNA data.

Receive flexible professional training in bioethical and medico-legal theories by studying for an LLM in Healthcare Ethics & Law.

17th World Conference Bioethics, Medical Ethics and Health Law, in Ljubljana (Slovenia), 24 to 26 November 2025.

The agency’s injury center was among the departments that were largely gutted in Tuesday’s wave of dismissals. Read a staff member’s letter to colleagues while they awaited their fates.

ASRM and SART condemn dangerous staffing cuts at FDA, NIH, and CDC, calling for immediate reversal to protect vital public health and reproductive research.

Today, many people associate epicureanism with hedonistic pleasure-seeking – but that’s not really what he taught.

Regulator finds people spending money on acupuncture and drugs when undergoing IVF or donor insemination Almost three-quarters of people undergoing fertility treatment in the UK are using “unproven extras” to increase their chances of having a baby, despite little evidence that they work. The findings, from the UK’s fertility watchdog, mean that about 40,000 people a year wanting to conceive are spending money on acupuncture, supplements and drugs, even though they are largely unproven. Some patients are facing increasingly long waits for care, of up to two years, especially for NHS fertility treatment. 51% of patients who used donor sperm got it from abroad, where rules on the maximum number of families that can be created by one donor are looser than in the UK. While 73% of patients are satisfied with their fertility treatment, Asian and black patients are less likely to be satisfied. Continue reading...

Apply to the Caroline Miles Visiting Scholarship, awarded to early career post-doctoral researchers to visit the Ethox Centre

Each year, hundreds of potentially world-changing treatments are discarded because scientists run out of cash. But where big pharma or altruists fear to tread, my friend and I have a solution. It’s re...

This event invites you to join an international group of scholars debating global developments in assisted conception