Longer education may lower risk for people with Alzheimer's gene
A link has been discovered between educational attainment and the formation of Alzheimer's disease precursory symptoms...
Dr Bethany Muller is a Volunteer Writer at BioNews. She is a Clinical Embryologist at the Hewitt Fertility Centre, Knutsford. She previously completed her PhD at the Hull York Medical School, looking at the role of mitochondria in pre-implantation embryogenesis and relating embryo metabolism to assisted reproduction. She has a particular interest in advances in reproductive biology and how technologies in ART can impact on gametes and embryos.
A link has been discovered between educational attainment and the formation of Alzheimer's disease precursory symptoms...
Researchers used stem cell-derived brain organoids to show that COVID-19 can infect and replicate inside brain cells...
Scientists at the University of Vermont and Tufts University, Massachusetts have reported building so-called 'biological robots' for the first time...
A €2.9m grant has been awarded to a consortium in the Netherlands to fund the development of an artificial womb to support premature babies...
A study reveals that a molecular handshake may exist between uterine cells and sperm that may help sperm evade attack by the female immune response...
Researchers have trained artificial intelligence software to grade human embryos with a high degree of accuracy...
A programme for freezing ovarian tissue to preserve fertility before cancer treatment in young girls is being launched at the Royal Free London Hospital, Hampstead...
Scientists have discovered alterations in sperm cell DNA of adult men who had been abused as a child...
A large study in Australia has found a link between undescended testes at birth and development of testicular cancer and infertility in later life...
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Ten years ago, the claim that treatment with cancer drugs can 'grow new eggs' would have been met with incredulity. But a recent study has raised the possibility that ovarian stem cells may be capable of providing new eggs in later life...
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