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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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8 May 2018 • 4 minutes read

The case for mandatory fertility counselling

by Anthony Ryb

Should everyone stepping through their doctor's door enquiring about fertility treatment receive a counselling session? Probably not, although in most situations it would certainly be useful for them. Should everyone who has decided to go ahead with ferti

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3 May 2018 • 2 minutes read

'Master activator' gene for cancer spread found

by Dr Molly Godfrey

A gene that plays a major role in promoting metastasis — the spread of cancer around the body — has been identified...

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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3 May 2018 • 2 minutes read

'Synthetic' mouse embryos created from stem cells

by Ewa Zotow

Scientists have created synthetic embryos in mice using stem cells rather than sperm or egg cells.

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 May 2018 • 2 minutes read

US Court of Appeals hears CRISPR patent case

by Dr Sam Sherratt

After three years of intense legal battles over the patent rights to CRISPR genome editing technology, lawyers for the University of California Berkeley and the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts faced off in court again...

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4 May 2018 • 2 minutes read

DNA test may benefit women with hard-to-treat breast cancer

by Dr Jamie Heather

Genetic testing could reveal a subset of patients with aggressive breast cancer who would benefit from a non-standard treatment, a clinical trial has found...

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Image by Dr Christina Weis. © Christina Weis
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4 May 2018 • 1 minute read

Baby born through surrogacy removed from UK's oldest parents

by Jonathan Bestwick

Britain's oldest new parents have had their one-year-old child, born through surrogacy, taken into care by Social Services...

Image by Dr Christina Weis. © Christina Weis
Image by Dr Christina Weis. © Christina Weis
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4 May 2018 • 2 minutes read

'Outdated and inadequate' UK surrogacy laws set for reform

by Dr Antony Starza-Allen

The Law Commission of England and Wales and the Scottish Law Commission, have announced that they will review the law around surrogacy and make recommendations for reform...

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 May 2018 • 1 minute read

Ex-husband must pay child support after forged IVF signature

by Jen Willows

A German man has been told that he must pay child support for his son, who was born after his ex-wife forged his signature to become pregnant using their frozen embryos...

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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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8 May 2018 • 3 minutes read

Video Review: The Code by Retro Report with STAT

by Charlott Repschläger

Personalised medicine is a topic that pops up frequently in the news and has been for what feels like a long time...

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