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Issue #906

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23 October 2017 • 1 minute read

Responsible innovation and IVF add-ons - it's time for the fertility sector to step up

by BioNews

The second in a series of videos filmed at the Progress Educational Trust's recent public debate 'Fertility Treatment Add-Ons: Do They Add Up?'...

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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7 July 2017 • 3 minutes read

How Germany's new Sperm Donor Registry Act is internationally progressive

by Claudia Brügge and 1 others

The German government has passed a law that will regulate the right of donor-conceived people to access their biological origins...

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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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11 July 2017 • 2 minutes read

Bristol hospital IVF unit to close

by Dr Kimberley Bryon-Dodd

From November 2017, patients will no longer be able to receive IVF at the Bristol Centre for Reproductive Medicine, Southmead Hospital...

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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3 July 2017 • 2 minutes read

Preeclampsia risk linked to DNA of baby, not mother

by Dr Linda Wijlaars

Preeclampsia — a dangerous rise in blood pressure in pregnant women — has been linked to a genetic variant found in the baby, instead of the mother...

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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7 July 2017 • 2 minutes read

Huntington's disease in mice partly reversed using CRISPR

by Meghna Kataria

Eliminating the faulty protein that causes Huntingdon's disease goes some way to reversing disease progression in mice, a study has found...

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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31 August 2017 • 3 minutes read

Lifetime cancer risk predicted for BRCA mutation carriers

by Dr Lea Goetz

A study of almost 10,000 women carrying BRCA mutations has revealed the best estimate yet of their risk in developing breast and ovarian cancer...

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31 August 2017 • 2 minutes read

Liquid biopsy may help target prostate cancer treatment

by Charlotte Spicer

A new three-in-one blood test could progress personalised treatment for patients with prostate cancer...

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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31 August 2017 • 2 minutes read

Large study finds first genes linked to Tourette's syndrome

by Cara Foley

The first genes linked Tourette's syndrome have been identified in the biggest study of the disorder to date...

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17 July 2017 • 2 minutes read

Leading figures in genetics and fertility recognised in Queen's Birthday Honours

by Sandy Starr

Foremost among them is Professor Sir John Sulston, who played a central role in the Human Genome Project and founded the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute...

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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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11 July 2017 • 3 minutes read

Event Review: Fathers, Donors and Men - Mother-Child Communication in Solo Mother Families

by Dr Kylie Baldwin

New technologies, procedures, and developments in reproductive science such as egg freezing, mitochondrial donation and genome editing have occupied many column inches, as well as much public and academic discussion in recent years. However, the topic of

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