Psychologists have found a genetic variant associated with relationship satisfaction in the first years of marriage...
Stem cell therapy significantly improved spinal cord injuries in a small clinical trial...
Brain organoids, grown in the lab from stem cells, have been shown to develop in-line with the human brain...
The risk of ectopic pregnancy may be influenced by regulation of a specific gene, according to new research...
A gene linked to longevity has been shown to protect brain stem cells from oxidative stress...
The body's response to infection by SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) varies across different cell types, according to a new study...
Dating hasn't worked out for Andrea Silenzi, and through running 'The Longest Shortest Time' podcast, she has decided that she is ready to become a single parent. In the first episode of a three-part miniseries, Silenzi explores using an app called 'Just a Baby' to find a sperm donor...
When the Human Genome Project was completed in 2000, Bill Clinton, then president of the United States, called it 'the most important, most wondrous map ever produced by humankind'...
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Ethics of genetically reconstituting oocytes
by Professor John Loike
In the 16 December issue of Nature, researchers reported that the addition of eight transcription factors to pluripotent stem cells converted them into a primary oocyte-like cell...
The Health of IVF Babies: What Do We Know? What Do We Need to Find Out?
by Annabel Slater
In 1978, in the run-up to the birth of Louise Brown, the first IVF baby, the media speculated greatly over whether she would be normal. 'Had there been anything at all wrong with me,' Brown has reflected, 'I think it would have been the end of IVF'...