Researchers have grown fully developed human eggs in the laboratory for the first time...
Several psychiatric disorders — autism, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depression — share patterns of gene activity, an international team of scientists has found...
Nebula Genomics, a new firm founded by geneticists, has announced its plan to sequence customers’ genomes cheaply and allow them to sell their own genomic information for digital money...
Blocking a single molecule, the amino acid asparagine, can prevent breast cancer spread in mice, according to a new study...
Lyle Hillyard of the Utah state Senate is seeking to overturn legislation giving legal protection to parties involved in surrogacy agreements, to prevent it being used by same-sex couples...
Researchers have successfully filmed the division of stem cells in an adult mouse brain, for the first time...
Baroness Mary Warnock, patron of the Progress Educational Trust (PET), which publishes BioNews, is to be awarded a major international prize for her work in bioethics...
Academics have written at length on the ethics of reproductive technologies, abortion and speculative possibilities such as reproductive cloning. But pregnancy itself up until recently has been a somewhat neglected topic...
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A scramble for headlines or an optimistic (sunny side up) contribution to research on fertility preservation?
by Professor Robin Lovell-Badge
The problem of fertility preservation for girls and women undergoing cancer treatments has been a subject of research for many decades. The recent study by McLaughlin and colleagues from Professor Evelyn Telfer's lab at the University of Edinburgh, UK, is