Since early 2023, I've been on a journey evaluating claims about the capabilities of generative "A.I." (yep, still gets air quotes). I've tried to reproduce some of the more sensational successes I've seen trumpeted on the Interwebs, and eventually come to the conclusion that most of them don't hold much water. Why, I wonder, are…
A white couple undergoing IVF treatment have had black twins after a blunder at a fertility clinic. It has sparked an unprecedented legal debate over how it could happen and who the 'lawful' parents are. BBC News Online asked Penney Lewis, a lecturer in law at King's College London, about issues surrounding the case.
A couple have spoken of their utter devastation after a fertility clinic mix-up led to their last viable embryo being implanted into another woman. Debra and Paul, from Bridgend, have received damages of about £25,000 after the error in December 2007.
Fertilising eggs from the wrong sperm donor is a nightmare scenario for IVF clinics, which came to light in the case of a white woman in Leeds who found herself giving birth to black twins in 2002. But The Report's Nadene Ghouri has since found a routine neglect of safeguards to prevent such mix-ups at a major London hospital led one embryologist to turn whistle-blower.
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