Olympian Greg Rutherford freezes sperm to avoid Zika
British athlete Greg Rutherford has frozen a sample of his sperm ahead of the Rio Olympics this summer because of concern over the Zika virus...
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by Ayala Ochert
British athlete Greg Rutherford has frozen a sample of his sperm ahead of the Rio Olympics this summer because of concern over the Zika virus...
by Ayala Ochert and 1 others
The team that developed the CRISPR/Cas9 DNA-editing technique have now developed a new system that could allow RNA editing...
by Ayala Ochert
Spanish scientists say they have created rudimentary sperm-like cells from skin and bone marrow cells taken from adult males...
by Ayala Ochert
A second team in China report that they have created genetically modified human embryos, in an attempt to make them resistant to HIV, using the genome-editing technique CRISPR/Cas9...
by Ayala Ochert
Genomics England has created a series of animations to help the public understand more about what genomics means and how it may affect them in the future...
by Ayala Ochert
An IVF clinic in the UK has announced that it will offer sperm donors the chance to nominate a friend or family member for free IVF treatment....
by Ayala Ochert
The Australian state of Victoria has passed a bill allowing all people conceived through egg or sperm donation to apply for identifying information about their biological parents...
by Ayala Ochert
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority is recommending that people returning from Zika-virus prone areas should not try to conceive naturally, donate eggs or sperm, or proceed with fertility treatment for 28 days...
by Ayala Ochert
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has granted the first licence to a UK researcher to edit the genomes of human embryos...
by Ayala Ochert
Scientists in Germany have created artificially motorised sperm, propelled by microscopic metal helices...
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