Immune cells that can recognise and kill cancer cells have been grown from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs)...
Global rates of infertility have remained relatively stable between 1990 and 2010, according to a study that compiled data from 277 national surveys in 190 countries....
A sperm donor in Kansas, USA, has been ordered to pay $6,000 in child support to a lesbian couple who he helped conceive a child with...
Neural stem cells were shown to be effective against amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or motor neurone disease, in 11 independent studies on mice with the disease...
Two rare genetic mutations have been linked to a higher risk of developing bowel cancer...
A Western Australian judge has granted a newly widowed woman the right to retrieve sperm from her dead husband, although a further court order will be required before it can be used for any purpose....
Bone fragments were removed from the eyelid of a woman after a facelift that used her own stem cells yielded some unexpected results...
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) has overturned a prohibition on IVF in Costa Rica saying that it infringed provisions under the American Convention on Human Rights....
Mythical ideas of 'chimera', or animals formed or forged of parts derived from various different organisms, have endured throughout history, from Greek folklore and Homer's Iliad through to contemporary science fiction. In fact, organisms arising from human-nonhuman genetic combinations are already with us...
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The Age-Old Question: The Impact of Age
by Ruth Saunders
Progress Educational Trust's 2012 annual conference 'Fertility Treatment: A Life-Changing Event?' concluded with a session entitled 'The Age-Old Question: The Impact of Age'...
Biotechnology, choice and the public good
by Dr Peter Mills
How valuable are emerging biotechnologies? Of all the questions about the prospects of the life sciences, this is the one that UK policy makers seem most eager to answer...
Resolute
by Sarah Norcross
Happy New Year to all our readers! New Year's resolutions usually involve cutting back on the 'bad' habits and increasing the 'good' ones...