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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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18 June 2009 • 5 minutes read

The Australian 'Wrongful Birth Claim': A Healthy Baby is a Blessing

by Dr Sammy Lee

Last week, BioNews reported on an ongoing Australian case in which an IVF mother is suing her consultant specialist for negligence concerning the birth of her healthy twins, on the basis of her express wish to have had only a singleton pregnancy and one child. The case has taken on...

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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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9 June 2009 • 1 minute read

New genetics guide for Australian doctors

by Ailsa Stevens

A handbook aimed at providing GPs with up to date information on genetics which they can use in their everyday practice, was released yesterday to delegates at the 50th annual conference of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners in Sydney. 'Genetics in Family Medicine: The Australian...

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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9 June 2009 • 2 minutes read

Companies back stem cells for drug testing

by Dr Antony Starza-Allen

A new public-private partnership between the UK Government and three big pharmaceutical companies to fund an initiative to use stem cells to test new drugs was announced last week. Stem Cells for Safer Medicine (SC4SM), a not-for-profit consortium, will initially invest over £1 million in projects testing...

Image by Bill McConkey via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts sperm swimming towards an egg.
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Image by Bill McConkey via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts sperm swimming towards an egg.
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9 June 2009 • 2 minutes read

Last chance of motherhood for single woman aged 60

by Dr Karen Devine

It would appear that the quest for motherhood is for some, a desire that fails to subside with age. Empowered by new technologies such as IVF treatments, women are increasingly seeking the assistance of fertility clinics to fulfil their aim of bearing a child when their biological...

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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9 June 2009 • 1 minute read

Clinton pledges to end Bush's 'war on science'

by Dr Antony Starza-Allen

Speaking at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington last week, Hilary Clinton, who is running for Democrat presidential candidate, laid down her vision of a Clinton presidency in which scientific progress is placed firmly back on the agenda. In her speech, timed to coincide with the...

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9 June 2009 • 2 minutes read

Single blastocyst transfer successful in women over 35

by Katy Sinclair

Californian researchers have reported that women over 35 can avoid multiple births by using an in vitro fertilisation (IVF) method that transfers only a single embryo. A team led by Dr Amin Milki from Stanford University, reporting in the journal Fertility and Sterility, announced that half of...

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 June 2009 • 1 minute read

Government makes concessions on Human Tissue and Embryos Bill

by Danielle Hamm

The UK government has paved the way ahead for the Human Tissue and Embryos (HTE) Bill in its response to the Bill Scrutiny Committee, which was released today. The Government has taken on many of the Committee's recommendations, including the rejection of plans to merge the current...

Image by Bill McConkey via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts sperm swimming towards an egg.
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Image by Bill McConkey via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts sperm swimming towards an egg.
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9 June 2009 • 1 minute read

Grandfather to donate sperm for son's child

by Ailsa Stevens

A 72-year-old grandfather will be allowed to act as a sperm donor for his infertile son and daughter-in-law, effectively making any resulting child his father's biological half brother. Although theoretically not illegal, according to the Human Fertility and Embryology Authority, is thought that this is the...

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