After analysing all cell types in the human ovary, scientists at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have shown so-called 'egg stem cells' do not exist...
A team of researchers in the US has become the first to use the genome-editing tool CRISPR directly on a person's body...
Researchers have found that children's DNA expression can be altered by length of pregnancy...
A novel genome editing method may surpass the speed and efficiency of current CRISPR approaches...
A novel variant of the Cas9 enzyme may increase the specificity of CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing...
'What is it to be human? What is it to be family?' These are the words of this week's interviewee, Jack Nunn, on The Genetics Society 'Unzipped' podcast: 'Hidden family secrets unveiled by genetic testing'...
The Dance of Life: Symmetry, Cells and How We Become Human is the autobiography of the developmental biologist Professor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, written with the unobtrusive but unerring support of a master science writer, Dr Roger Highfield...
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Can 'known' donors show us the future of egg and sperm donation?
by Petra Nordqvist and 2 others
In common parlance, being an egg or sperm donor means donating to an anonymous stranger via a clinic or bank...
FILM: Frozen Fertility - The Challenges of Storing Eggs, Sperm and Embryos (Part 1)
by BioNews
The first in a series of films documenting a recent Progress Educational Trust/Scottish Government event on medical, ethical, legal, social and policy aspects of cryopreservation, featuring introductions by Sarah Norcross and Professor Allan Pacey...