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Issue #895

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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).
Comment
4 April 2017 • 5 minutes read

Prohibiting sperm donor anonymity in the US and possible effects on recruitment and compensation

by Andrew Hellman and 1 others

Many children conceived using donor sperm or eggs want to know their biological parents. In the US, some clinics make the identity of the sperm donor available to a donor-conceived child at age 18. Most intending parents, though, choose sperm donation pro

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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4 April 2017 • 6 minutes read

Fertility treatment add-ons: do they add up?

by Dr Antony Starza-Allen

The controversial issue of IVF 'add-ons' — techniques and treatments offered to fertility patients on top of standard IVF — has been the subject of intense debate and media attention since last November's BBC Panorama's documentary, which claimed that

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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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4 April 2017 • 2 minutes read

79 rare obesity-causing genes catalogued

by Marianne Kennedy

Seventy-nine rare genetic syndromes in which obesity is a major feature have been catalogued by Canadian researchers...

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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4 April 2017 • 2 minutes read

University of California win CRISPR patent battle in Europe

by Jen Willows

The European Patent Office has declared that it intends to grant a broad patent for the use of CRISPR technologies to the University of California, the University of Vienna and Dr Emmanuelle Charpentier of the Max-Planck Institute in Berlin...

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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25 April 2017 • 2 minutes read

Stem cells used to treat erectile dysfunction

by Emma Laycock

Men with erectile dysfunction following prostate surgery were able to have intercourse again after receiving an experimental stem cell therapy using cells taken from their own abdomen, a Danish study has shown...

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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4 April 2017 • 3 minutes read

New genes linked to brain and ovarian cancer

by Annabel Slater

New genes indicating risk of ovarian and brain cancer have been identified using genome-wide association studies...

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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4 April 2017 • 2 minutes read

Stem cells could be used to create 'endless supply of blood'

by Jen Willows

A new method of producing red blood cells outside the body on a large scale has been developed by researchers at the University of Bristol...

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25 April 2017 • 2 minutes read

Female reproductive cycle recreated on chip

by Dr Caroline Casey

Researchers in the US have replicated the female reproductive tract using a 3D model that mimics the natural menstrual cycle...

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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11 April 2017 • 3 minutes read

Method behind first successful mitochondrial replacement therapy revealed

by Jonathan Bestwick

Details of the world's first successful use of mitochondrial replacement therapy in IVF have been published...

Reviews

Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts equipment used for embryo biopsy.
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Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts equipment used for embryo biopsy.
Reviews
25 April 2017 • 4 minutes read

Event Review: The future of female fertility? Egg freezing and social change

by Jamie Rickman

Can egg freezing be considered a feminist technology? Should we really be addressing the failures of a social fabric that requires women to preserve their fertility at all? This event was an exciting opening to an urgently needed discussion and is the fir

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