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Issue #1101

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Image by Dr Christina Weis. © Christina Weis
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25 June 2021 • 4 minutes read

Surrogacy law change: The UK needs to look across the pond

by Zaina Mahmoud

The long process of reforming surrogacy laws in the UK continues, with legislation expected from the Law Commission of England and Wales and Scottish Law Commission early next year...

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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25 June 2021 • 5 minutes read

A matter of diagnosis... and why diagnosis matters

by Allison Watson

Ring chromosome 20 syndrome is an ultra-rare difficult to treat epilepsy, often accompanied by intellectual disability and behaviour disorder...

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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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25 June 2021 • 2 minutes read

Policymakers advised to address problems with direct-to-consumer genomic testing

by Michaela Chen

The UK Government should review regulation of direct-to-consumer genetic and genomic tests, according to a report by the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee...

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25 June 2021 • 2 minutes read

Human organoid gives insight into neural tube development

by Eleanor Mackle

Scientists have developed a way to study processes that are crucial to the formation of the human spinal cord, without the ethical concerns of using human embryos...

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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25 June 2021 • 2 minutes read

Chinese scientist removed early COVID-19 genomic data from scientific database

by Anna Wernick

A controversial paper suggests that Chinese researchers retracted early COVID-19 viral sequences from a US database to obscure their origins...

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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25 June 2021 • 2 minutes read

No increased breast cancer risk from fertility drugs

by Jennifer Frosch

Fertility drugs do not increase the risk of developing breast cancer, a UK study has shown...

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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25 June 2021 • 2 minutes read

Airway model developed to study viral lung infections

by Devika Sooklall

Stem cell models may help investigate COVID-19 and other lung diseases...

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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25 June 2021 • 1 minute read

Fertility clinic ransomware data breach affected 38,000 patients

by Dr Rachel Montgomery

Sensitive personal and medical information of around 38,000 patients has been exposed in a ransomware attack on a US fertility clinic...

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25 June 2021 • 2 minutes read

Antibodies from COVID-19 vaccines do not cause infertility in women

by Semyon Bodian

Antibodies, resulting from either vaccination against or infection with COVID-19 do not impact female fertility, according to new research...

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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25 June 2021 • 2 minutes read

IVF patients not negatively affected by COVID-19 mRNA vaccination

by Georgina Al-Badri

No differences were identified between IVF cycles taking place before and after the patients received the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine...

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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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10 May 2021 • 4 minutes read

Podcast Review: 'Will Cancer Make Me Infertile?' – That cancer conversation

by Beatrice Costa

Several studies have shown that cancer treatments, such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy, can have temporary or even permanent effects on fertility by damaging the ovaries or testis...

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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10 May 2021 • 3 minutes read

Podcast R`eview: Male Infertility with Kevin Button

by Ahmed Amer

I first heard about the Fertility Podcast a few years ago from a patient who told me her and her partner used the podcast series, and other social media outlets, as a method of deciphering the unfamiliar world of infertility treatment they inadvertently found themselves in...

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