By Serene Luo

WOMEN who donate their eggs for research should be reimbursed - but only for expenses such as cab fares, and their earnings in the time taken up.

They should not, however, expect to be paid for the inconvenience, pain undergone, nor risks involved in egg extraction, said the Bioethics Advisory Committee (BAC) of Singapore, a high-level body set up in 2000 to guide researchers through troubling ethical, legal and social issues which arise as science advances.

The committee yesterday unveiled seven recommendations on the handling of human eggs donated for research in Singapore.

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