British scientists investigating the causes of miscarriage have applied for permission to modify the genes of human embryos, their institute has confirmed.

A mother has lost a High Court battle in her bid to use her dead daughter’s frozen eggs to give birth to her own grandchild.

A mother has lost a UK High Court battle in her bid to use her dead daughter’s frozen eggs to give birth to her own grandchild.

A mother is launching a legal battle for possession of her dead daughter’s frozen eggs so that she can become pregnant with her own grandchild.

A widow who won a high court fight to preserve her late husband’s sperm was last night “downhearted” after the UK fertility regulator was given permission to try to overturn the ruling.

A widow who wants to preserve her late husband’s sperm may have to stage a fight in the UK's Court of Appeal.

A young widow has launched a High Court fight to preserve her late husband’s sperm.

A woman who cannot be named has launched a legal battle in Britain for the right to “harvest” her seriously-ill partner’s sperm so that she can have his children.

TWO embryos are better than one for maximising the chances of having an IVF baby at any age, a study has found.

Guidelines for assisted human reproduction must be cemented by legislation, writes Catherine Shanahan.

Two British men who netted £250,000 (€286,520) after providing women with access to sperm through an illegal fertility company were spared an immediate jail term today.

Devastating inherited diseases could be prevented using a pioneering fertility technique to swap DNA between eggs, scientists believe.

AN IVF couple compensated by an NHS trust after their last embryo was implanted in the wrong woman by mistake said yesterday they may use the money to try for another child.

The British fertility regulator today gave the green light for the creation of hybrid human-animal embryos.

A 72-YEAR-OLD man is to become a sperm donor for his own “grandchild”, it was reported yesterday.

ONE of the scientists behind the bid to create human-animal embryos said their work could help treat human diseases.

The fertility regulator agreed in principle today that British scientists should be able to create human-animal embryos.

BRITAIN’S fertility watchdog yesterday postponed a decision on whether to allow women to donate eggs for cloning research until it had gathered opinion from experts and members of the public.

BRITAIN’S fertility watchdog has approved the extension of embryo gene screening.

A WEBSITE which supplies sperm to lesbians and single women wanting to have a baby yesterday claimed it had found a way around new laws on donor anonymity.

A SHORTAGE of donor eggs in this country means up to 100 Irish couples with fertility problems are on waiting lists for eggs with many forced to travel to Spain or the United States.

THE scientist who created Dolly the Sheep was yesterday granted a licence to clone human embryos in an attempt to find a cure for motor neurone disease.

MILLIONS of people who have diseases which are currently incurable were given hope yesterday when British scientists were granted permission to clone human embryos for medical research.

BRITISH scientists have been given the go-ahead to clone human embryos for medical research.

Millions of people who have diseases which are currently incurable were given hope today when British scientists were granted permission to clone human embryos for medical research.

British scientists have been granted permission to clone human embryos for medical research, it was announced today.

PARENTS of seriously ill children whose only hope of survival is the creation of a “saviour sibling” will be overjoyed at yesterday’s decision by Britain’s fertility watchdog.

AN IRISH couple were last night celebrating the decision by Britain’s fertility watchdog to broaden its rules on embryo screening to allow the birth of “designer babies” to cure sick siblings.

A Northern Ireland couple were tonight celebrating the decision of the British Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority to broaden its rules on “designer babies”.

The British fertility watchdog was meeting today to consider relaxing its rules on embryo screening to allow the birth of “designer babies” to cure sick siblings.

The British fertility watchdog may have to relax its rules on “designer babies” because of mounting pressure from doctors and parents, a leading specialist said today.

Human embryo cells have been used to treat rats with symptoms of Parkinson’s disease in a move that has important implications for therapeutic cloning, it was revealed today.

MOVES to prevent couples from being allowed to choose the sex of their baby for reasons other than medical concerns were welcomed by doctors, fertility experts and ethical watchdogs in Britain yesterday.

MOVES to prevent couples being allowed to choose the sex of their baby for reasons other than medical concerns were welcomed in Britain yesterday by doctors, fertility experts and ethics watchdogs.

BRITAIN’S first genetic “designer” baby has been born to a couple desperate to cure their young son, who has a rare form of anaemia.

THE first British research licence of its kind permitting a technique that creates embryonic stem cells from human eggs has been granted to the scientists who cloned Dolly the sheep, it was announced yesterday.

THE Conference on Assisted Human Production at Dublin Castle on February sixth was intended to be a public consultation.

AS a child I was particularly chilled by the story of Pandora’s Box. In Greek mythology Pandora and her husband Epimetheus are visited by Jupiter’s messenger, Mercury, who gives them a box for safe keeping.

A controversial Italian doctor who has said he intends to clone humans, is to ask for permission to carry out the experiment in the UK, it emerged today.

A British clinic was at the centre of controversy today for considering helping an infertile woman to have her brother’s child through artificial insemination.

A British clinic is considering helping an infertile woman to have her brother's child through artificial insemination.

Doctors who gave a 56-year-old woman the chance to become Britain's oldest mother of twins have been criticised.