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.

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.

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.