A new blood test for Down’s syndrome in high-risk women has been recommended for use on the NHS....
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) is considering a proposal from scientists to genetically edit human embryos...
Two girls have become the first children to be diagnosed with rare genetic conditions through the 100,000 Genomes Project — the NHS DNA-sequencing initiative...
Scientists in Germany have created artificially motorised sperm, propelled by microscopic metal helices...
A man from Luton, Bedfordshire, claims to have fathered 'in excess of 800 children' through unlicensed artificial sperm donations...
The CRISPR 'patent wars' have now officially kicked off in the USA, with formal proceedings to determine who controls key patents over the revolutionary genome-editing technology...
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Genome editing and CRISPR: The science of engineering the embryo
by Dr Jess Buxton
We report from the third session of the annual conference of the Progress Educational Trust, titled 'Genome Editing and CRISPR: The Science of Engineering the Embryo', which discussed these new technologies and how they might be used in the future...
Stating the obvious: discarding embryos does not increase your chance of having a baby
by Professor Heidi Mertes and 2 others
Under the auspices of the Virtual Academy of Genetics, COGEN recently issued a 'consensus statement' on preimplantation genetic screening, based on a scientific meeting held in Paris last September...