Healthy twins born from uniformly aneuploid embryos
Fully aneuploid embryos transferred during IVF resulted in healthy non-identical twin girls, now nearly seven years old...
Julianna Photopoulos
Julianna Photopoulos is a Volunteer Writer at BioNews and also works at the consultancy StoryCog where she runs the SciCast project, a competition involving short films about practical science and engineering. She is also a freelance writer, and has written for publications including BBC Focus magazine, British Science Association Festival News, Science for Environment Policy and Science in School. Previously, she studied Biology at the University of Crete, and went on to obtain an MRes in Developmental Biology and Genetics from the University of Barcelona and an MSc in Science Communication from the University of the West of England. She tweets as @juliannaphos
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Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
Antioxidant supplements do not improve men's fertility
Use of antioxidant supplements by men does not improve pregnancy rates, according to a large-scale study by researchers in the Netherlands...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
Infertility-related trauma examined in survey
A survey has found that many fertility patients experience trauma, and they believe it is often intensified by insufficient care...
Image by Peter Artymiuk via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts the shadow of a DNA double helix, on a background that shows the fluorescent banding of the output from a DNA sequencing machine.
NICE does not support NHS funding of haemophilia gene therapy
The UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published draft guidance recommending against the use of a new gene therapy for haemophilia B on the NHS...
Australian sperm donor fathered 60 children under multiple aliases
A sperm donor in Australia has been discovered to have fathered over 60 children, after he donated under four different aliases...
Image by Peter Artymiuk via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts the shadow of a DNA double helix, on a background that shows the fluorescent banding of the output from a DNA sequencing machine.
Gene therapy injected in one eye improves vision in both
Vision improves in both eyes when gene therapy is administered to only one eye, an international team of researchers has found whilst treating a rare form of blindness...
Study shows risks of using genome editing on embryos
A new study has concluded that using CRISPR-based genome editing on embryos makes unintended DNA changes that would be passed on to future generations...
HFEA data shows rise in IVF across family types
A new report from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has identified how fertility treatment is being used in the UK by single patients as well as heterosexual and female same-sex couples...
Gene therapy reduces fat and builds muscle in mice
A novel gene therapy prevents obesity and builds muscle without the need for additional exercise or dieting.
Diabetes reversed in mice using CRISPR and stem cell therapy
Genome-edited human stem cells from diabetic patients have been shown to successfully reverse diabetes in mice...