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PETNewslettersIssue #1039
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Issue #1039

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16 March 2020 • 1 minute read

FILM: Frozen Fertility - The Challenges of Storing Eggs, Sperm and Embryos (Part 2)

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The second 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 a presentation by Dr Melanie Davies of Fertility Preservation UK...

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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16 March 2020 • 5 minutes read

Keep calm and... stop? Fertility treatment in a pandemic

by Dr Raj Mathur and 1 others

The spread of a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), which causes the disease COVID-19, presents UK fertility clinics and patients with a unique set of challenges...

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13 March 2020 • 2 minutes read

Microbial DNA in blood may help diagnose cancer

by Dr Jay Stone

Different types and stages of cancer may cause unique microbial DNA signatures that can be detected in the blood, according to new research published in Nature...

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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13 March 2020 • 2 minutes read

'London patient' declared cured of HIV after three years

by Jennifer Frosch

Three years after receiving a stem cell transplant, a man from London is the second patient in history to be cured of HIV, doctors report...

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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13 March 2020 • 1 minute read

Belfast Trust postpones fertility treatment due to coronavirus

by Rachel Siden

Fertility treatments for 33 patients have been postponed at Belfast's Regional Fertility Centre due to COVID-19...

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13 March 2020 • 2 minutes read

New genetic test could identify 'high risk' bone marrow cancer patients

by Christina Burke

A new way of identifying high-risk bone marrow cancer may help predict which patients will have more aggressive disease...

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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13 March 2020 • 2 minutes read

Unproven report linking coronavirus to male infertility removed

by Dr Laura Riggall

A report published online that suggests the novel coronavirus may lead to male infertility has now been removed...

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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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9 March 2020 • 3 minutes read

Film Review: Childless in the World's Most Fertile Country

by Ahmed Amer

The impact infertility has on the quality of life is significant...

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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13 March 2020 • 3 minutes read

Exhibition Review: I:DNA

by Amarpreet Kaur

I:DNA is an artistic installation created from research data collated by Dr Felicity Boardman from the University of Warwick in collaboration with Santé Theatre and Media Productions...

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