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The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority is asking if IVF patients and women not having treatment should donate, and which checks are needed.
This comes despite permission already being granted to a North East research team to collect eggs for research.
Scientists hope to find new cures for disease through their work, but the egg donors themselves face health risks.
Women who have their ovaries stimulated with drugs to make eggs for harvesting risk a rare, but potentially deadly, condition called ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome.
Some question whether allowing donation for research will limit the ability of clinics to provide egg donor fertility treatment for women.
Others are concerned about the potential risk of women being coerced into donating for research.
For example, a woman who has a partner with a genetic illness that stem cell research might benefit could feel under pressure to donate.
Egg 'shortage'
The Newcastle NHS Fertility Centre is offering to part-fund women's IVF treatment if they donate some of their fresh eggs for research. Before this they relied on 'left-over' eggs discarded during IVF.
Researchers will...