Mouse eggs created from skin cells
A new method of creating eggs from skin cells has been demonstrated in mice, and could have potential for treating infertility in future...
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A new method of creating eggs from skin cells has been demonstrated in mice, and could have potential for treating infertility in future...
A BBC documentary about social egg freezing has accused the UK fertility sector of misleading advertising....
Guidance needs to be created for healthcare professionals on the limitations and ethics of using polygenic risk scores, an independent review has recommended...
by Yan Lau
Three separate clinical trials of engineered immune cells have reported results for treating glioblastoma, an aggressive and hard-to-treat brain cancer...
A genome editing technique that allows researchers to test thousands of different mutations that might affect how cancer cells behave has been developed...
Heralding the technology behind SCBEMs as 'one of the 21st century's most dramatic scientific developments', Professor Emily Jackson's lecture was packed with fascinating legal and ethical commentary...
by Rebecca Robb
This ELSI Friday Forum focused on polygenic risk scores: an assessment and prediction of an individual's risk with regards to certain genetic traits or illnesses based on their phenotype...
The Guardian asked the question, 'Why are there so few Black sperm donors in the USA?' and turned to Angela Stepancic, a Black woman who recently navigated her way through the complex fertility system in the USA to help answer this question and many others...
ITVX's new four-part documentary, Born From the Same Stranger features the stories of donor-conceived people looking for information about their half-siblings and donors. Charlotte Dore reviews the first episode to air...
The latest novel by Sebastian Faulks is a thriller revolving around a billionaire entrepreneur who plans to stretch the boundaries of ethics...
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