This week I feel ashamed. This newspaper has published evidence of widespread bad practice in my own speciality of medicine, infertility treatment. And I feel angry because the Government’s regulatory body, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has been inadequate. It has not prevented the disgraceful exploitation of patients, mostly women. I am also depressed…
BABIES are noisy, smelly, highly inconvenient, cause sleeplessness, destroy free time and are extremely expensive. Yet we feel like melting when we see them: their wide, gummy smiles, the adorable way they curl their tiny fingers around your thumb. This is not rational – it is in our genes. The urge to reproduce is deeply…
Professor Robert Winston talks to James Bezer of Imperial College London’s student newspaper, Felix, about the vote to allow ‘three-parent babies’. Visit the Felix online newspaper to read the full article. In the next issue, James asked Robert for his views on the role of scientists in Parliament. To read the article in full, visit the…
Ahead of Parliament’s debate on mitochondrial transfer, Robert was asked to write an article for the Telegraph.
In 2014 Professor Winston launched the free, confidential Ask Robert Winston service through the Genesis Research Trust. He talks to the Guardian about the reasons for setting up this facility.
