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PETNewslettersIssue #1037
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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.
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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.
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2 March 2020 • 2 minutes read

#ExtendTheLimit of what PET can do

by Sarah Norcross

Changing the law is a central part of what the Progress Educational Trust (PET) does. PET was born out of a campaign — the Progress Campaign for Research into Human Reproduction — and more than 30 years later, remains actively involved in several campaigns. It is in our DNA to campaign on your behalf...

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.
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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 sequencing output from an automated DNA sequencing machine.
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2 March 2020 • 4 minutes read

ABC v St George's: exercising judgment without fear

by Professor Anneke Lucassen

A long-awaited decision in the case of ABC v St George's and others was made public last week...

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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).
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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-coloured cryogenic scanning electron micrograph).
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28 February 2020 • 2 minutes read

Stem cell therapy cures diabetes in mice

by Julianna Photopoulos

Stem cell therapy has been used in mice to functionally cure diabetes for the first time, as published in the journal Nature Biotechnology...

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.
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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 sequencing output from an automated DNA sequencing machine.
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28 February 2020 • 2 minutes read

Retinal gene therapy trial shows positive result

by Dr Hannah Somers

A clinical trial using gene therapy for treating a common cause of genetic blindness published positive results in Nature Medicine...

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28 February 2020 • 3 minutes read

Common gut bacteria may cause bowel cancer

by Dr Jay Stone

A common strain of gut bacteria may drive genetic changes that cause bowel cancer, according to research published in Nature...

Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
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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.
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28 February 2020 • 1 minute read

Israeli high court extends surrogacy right to same sex couples

by Georgia Everett

Israel's Supreme Court has ruled that its surrogacy laws are discriminatory, and that same-sex couples and single men should be able to have children through surrogacy...

Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
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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.
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28 February 2020 • 2 minutes read

Leading medics back egg freezing extension

by Emma Lamb

Professional medical bodies are calling for the UK law on the storage limit for frozen eggs to be extended, to provide women with more choice in their reproductive years...

Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
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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.
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28 February 2020 • 2 minutes read

National standards needed for IVF cycles, says health minister

by Catherine Hill

UK health minister Matt Hancock has said Clinical Commissioning Groups should not be determining the level of access to NHS fertility services...

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.
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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 sequencing output from an automated DNA sequencing machine.
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2 March 2020 • 2 minutes read

Daughter loses Huntington's confidentiality case

by Jen Willows

A UK woman who sued her father's doctors because they did not inform her of her risk of Huntington's disease has lost her case...

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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.
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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.
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28 February 2020 • 3 minutes read

Film Review: DNA Testing, Sperm Donor Anonymity and Me

by Freddie Howell

Anyone who donated sperm, eggs or embryos in the UK prior to the 2005 law change was promised life-long anonymity. Now in 2020, the probability of donors remaining anonymous is very much diminished, and continues to reduce, as more and more people take direct-to-consumer DNA tests...

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