An experimental cell-based treatment using gene editing, previously only tested on mice, has successfully reversed advanced leukaemia in a one-year-old girl...
Researchers have identified the genetic mutations that drive resistance to the hormone therapy abiraterone in patients with advanced prostate cancer...
Men previously considered sterile have successfully fathered children thanks to a newly improved technique called round spermatid injection (ROSI)...
In the aftermath of the STAP stem-cell controversy, Waseda University has revoked the doctorate degree of the stem-cell scientist Haruko Obokata...
Scientists say it may be possible to track the progress of cancer — and cancer treatment — in real time from fragments of tumour DNA that are shed into the bloodstream...
A group of researchers have called for an overturn of a recent decision by the National Institutes of Health to suspend funding for research on human—animal chimeras...
Scientists have reported on a method that allows successful 3D bioprinting of adult stem cells...
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Natural killer cells and fertility: unwarranted treatments flourish amid misinformation and poor regulation
by Dr Norman Shreeve
In recent years a range of treatments aimed at suppressing uterine natural killer activity have sprung up, but this has no scientific rationale and can have significant and dangerous side effects...
Debating donor conception 10 years after the removal of anonymity
by Arit Udoh
'The kids are not alright.' 'Current legislation needs to do more to protect the rights of donor-conceived children.' These were some of the comments made by donor-conceived adults who attended a recent Progress Educational Trust/National Gamete Donation Trust event...