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24 April 2020 • 1 minute read

FILM: Frozen Fertility - The Challenges of Storing Eggs, Sperm and Embryos (Part 6)

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The sixth 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 panel discussion chaired by Professor Allan Pacey of the University of Sheffield...

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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27 April 2020 • 5 minutes read

Improving choices for fertility patients during a pandemic

by Sarah Norcross

We welcome the UK government's two-year extension to the legal limit on the storage of eggs, sperm and embryos, but more needs to be done for fertility patients during and after the coronavirus pandemic...

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Image by Bill Sanderson via the Wellcome Collection, © Wellcome Trust Ltd 1990. Depicts Laocoön and his family (from Greek and Roman mythology) entwined in coils of DNA.
Image by Bill Sanderson via the Wellcome Collection, © Wellcome Trust Ltd 1990. Depicts Laocoön and his family entwined in coils of DNA (based on the figure of Laocoön from Greek and Roman mythology).
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24 April 2020 • 2 minutes read

High court orders fertility clinic to release deceased man's records

by Suzi Denton

A fertility clinic has been ordered to disclose records pertaining to the use of a dead patient's sperm to the personal representative of the patient's estate...

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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24 April 2020 • 2 minutes read

Virtual embryo gives insight into early embryo development

by Purvi Shah

The first 'virtual embryo' has been created to help understand early embryo development and the evolution of one single cell into many cells of different types...

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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24 April 2020 • 2 minutes read

Manchester IVF clinic at risk of closure amid increasing privatisations

by Dr Rachel Montgomery

The UK's first fully funded NHS IVF clinic is at risk of closure after it was revealed that the hospital cannot afford a much-needed £10m refurbishment...

Image by K Hardy via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human embryo at the blastocyst stage (about six days after fertilisation) 'hatching' out of the zona pellucida.
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Image by K Hardy via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human embryo at the blastocyst stage (about six days after fertilisation) 'hatching' out of the zona pellucida.
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24 April 2020 • 2 minutes read

Human endometrium harbours cancer-driving mutations

by Charlott Repschläger

Many cells in the inner lining of the uterus may carry cancer-driving mutations in their DNA from an early point in life, even though these cells appear normal under the microscope...

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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24 April 2020 • 2 minutes read

Diabetes reversed in mice using CRISPR and stem cell therapy

by Julianna Photopoulos

Genome-edited human stem cells from diabetic patients have been shown to successfully reverse diabetes in mice...

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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24 April 2020 • 2 minutes read

Alternative framework for heredity proposed

by Dr Rosie Morley

The genetic code alone cannot account for all of the information needed for one organism to reproduce, and more attention should be paid to other components and attributes of the fertilised egg, two new papers suggest...

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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24 April 2020 • 2 minutes read

CRISPR helps uncover new leukaemia genes

by Dr Jay Stone

CRISPR has been used, for the first time, to identify novel genes that are key drivers of aggressive chronic myeloid leukaemia...

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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27 April 2020 • 2 minutes read

A two-year storage extension for eggs, sperm and embryos

by Catherine Hill

The Government has announced a two-year storage extension for eggs, sperm and embryos to give people extra time to access fertility services, whilst the UK tackles the coronavirus pandemic...

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17 April 2020 • 4 minutes read

Book Review: A Century of Geneticists — Mutation to medicine

by Dr Eleanor Taylor

Sir Isaac Newton's famous quote 'If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants' pays homage to the early scholars whose work paved the way for Newton's own discoveries...

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