Fertility treatment blueprint for the future

THE report of the Commission on Assisted Human Reproduction makes 40 recommendations for the regulation of procedures and standards across a wide variety of reproductive and fertility-related treatments and research.

These activities range from assisted insemination (AI) to the more complex in vitro fertilisation (IVF) which has been in use since the 1970s.

It also takes into account more recent experimental procedures such as the creation of part-human interspecies embryos, which a group of South Koreans claimed to have achieved in 2003.