Sperm donor given parental rights over child born to lesbian couple in Oklahoma
The known sperm donor for a child born to a lesbian couple has been granted parental rights over a child following a legal battle after the couple's divorce...
Zoe Beketova
Zoe Beketova is a Volunteer Writer for BioNews. She is currently at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology studying science journalism. Previously, she completed a BSc in Human Sciences at University College London, specialising in psychiatry and neuroscience, where she wrote a dissertation regarding the effects of developmental trauma and its link to psychosis.
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US genetic study to feed back results to participants
The All of Us study, which aims to sequence one million genomes in the USA, run by the National Institutes of Health, has announced it will inform participants of any health-related findings...
Image by Sílvia Ferreira, Cristina Lopo and Eileen Gentleman via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a single human stem cell embedded within a porous hydrogel matrix (false colour).
Lab-grown red blood cells used in blood transfusion for first time
Laboratory-grown red blood cells have been used in a blood transfusion in a world first clinical trial...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
Major employers back Fertility Workplace Pledge
UK employers, such as Co-op, Natwest, Metro Bank and Channel 4, have signed up to the Fertility Workplace Pledge to help employees undergoing fertility treatments...
Image by Sílvia Ferreira, Cristina Lopo and Eileen Gentleman via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a single human stem cell embedded within a porous hydrogel matrix (false colour).
Human brain cells in a dish learn to play videogame
Human and mouse brain cells grown in the lab have learned to play the tennis-like videogame, Pong...
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.
Nobel Prize awarded to geneticist for sequencing the Neanderthal genome
Swedish geneticist Professor Svante Pääbo has been awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work that resulted in the sequencing of the entire ancient Neanderthal genome for the first time...