IVF-related research

With this report (the last in a series of three) the IVF Committee of the Health Council concludes its response to the request for an advisory report submitted in 1994. The report indicates the current level of knowledge with regard to pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) and describes current developments in the field of research concerned with improving IVF. A separate chapter is devoted to the issue of whether it is permissible to use human embryos for research aimed at further developing PGD or improving IVF. It also explores the conditions to be imposed on such research.