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Issue #1112

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13 September 2021 • 1 minute read

FILM: Egg Freezing – Stopping the Clock

by BioNews

As the UK Government announces its intention to extend gamete and embryo storage limits, watch this short film about the campaign that led to this announcement – the #ExtendTheLimit campaign, led by the Progress Educational Trust...

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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13 September 2021 • 6 minutes read

From ten to 55 years, what does the extension in the storage time on frozen eggs mean?

by Dr Kylie Baldwin

After several years of campaigning to #extendthelimit on the storage period of eggs frozen for social reasons, I like many welcomed the recent government announcement to change the maximum storage time from ten years to a maximum of 55 years...

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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 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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10 September 2021 • 2 minutes read

Mini CRISPR-associated protein developed by bioengineers

by Dr George Janes

Potential applications of CRISPR could be broadened by a new miniature version of the genome editing approach...

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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10 September 2021 • 2 minutes read

NIFTY non-invasive prenatal test scrutinised over links to Chinese military

by Christina Burke

Health regulators in five countries are investigating non-invasive prenatal test NIFTY, over data protection concerns....

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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10 September 2021 • 2 minutes read

Gene identified that plays a key role in severity of colon cancer

by Manon Everard

A lack of a specific gene in immune cells of patients with colon cancer has been linked with a much more dangerous form of the disease...

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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10 September 2021 • 2 minutes read

Safety demonstrated for blood stem cell transplants in children

Blood stem cell transplants do not lead to changes in the DNA of the transplanted cells, a discovery demonstrating their safety has shown...

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10 September 2021 • 1 minute read

Mitochondrial sensors highlight the role of exercise in avoiding chronic disease

by Bethany Muller

New research detailing how mitochondria maintain proper function could lead to improved treatments for conditions such as Alzheimer's and diabetes...

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 September 2021 • 2 minutes read

Functional sperm developed from mouse pluripotent stem cells

by Purvi Shah

Researchers in Japan have successfully demonstrated the development of functional sperm cells that developed into fertile offspring from pluripotent embryonic stem cells, in mice...

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Image by Dr Christina Weis. © Christina Weis
Image by Dr Christina Weis. © Christina Weis
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30 July 2021 • 4 minutes read

Film Review: Mimi

by Daniel Jacobson

I have recently become obsessed with an intriguing phenomenon known as 'twin films'...

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 September 2021 • 3 minutes read

Book Review: Fertility Issues

by Susan Tranfield-Thomas

Fertility Issues is one of a series of educational booklets from Independence Educational Publishers, aimed at children aged over 11 in key stages 3, 4, and above, which aims to present and explore contemporary social issues in an unbiased way...

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