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PETNewslettersIssue #953
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Issue #953

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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 June 2018 • 5 minutes read

With great genomic data comes great responsibility

by Sarah Norcross

As part of Genomics England's Genomics Conversation initiative, the Progress Educational Trust (PET) — the charity that publishes BioNews — is producing a public event this month entitled 'With Great Genomic Data Comes Great Responsibility'...

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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 June 2018 • 2 minutes read

First UK womb transplant to take place this year

by Sarah Pritchard

The charity Womb Transplant UK has announced its intention to carry out the first womb transplant in the UK by the end of 2018, with living as well as deceased donors...

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 June 2018 • 1 minute read

Stress during military conflict lowers sperm quality

by Emma Laycock

Scientists in Israel have linked prolonged stress during outbreaks of Israeli-Palestinian conflict with lowered sperm quality in Israeli men...

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 June 2018 • 2 minutes read

FDA puts major CRISPR genome editing trial on hold

by Christie Whitehouse

The US drugs regulator has put on hold an application for a clinical trial of a new genome editing based treatment for sickle cell disease...

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 June 2018 • 2 minutes read

Data breach sparks DNA test privacy concerns

by Dr Jamie Heather

Genealogy service MyHeritage has revealed that some of their user account data has been hacked...

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.
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8 June 2018 • 1 minute read

New York court rules embryo to be destroyed

by Dr Mary Yarwood

A New York Court has ordered that a former couple's last frozen embryo must be destroyed, per the husband's wishes, despite being the woman's last chance to have a biologically related child...

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8 June 2018 • 2 minutes read

Majority of breast cancer patients do not need chemotherapy

by Grace O'Regan

Chemotherapy is not necessary to treat the most common type of breast cancer in 69 percent of cases, a new study has shown...

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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.
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8 June 2018 • 2 minutes read

TV Review: The Split (BBC 1, Episode 3, Series 1)

by Daniel Malynn

As avid readers of BioNews will know, I am a hard-to-please reviewer: more than willing to turn on TV, films, plays, radio or books that poorly represent any fertility issues, particularly those with legal dimension...

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 June 2018 • 5 minutes read

Book Review: 21 Miles - Swimming in Search of the Meaning of Motherhood

by Susan Tranfield-Thomas

Jessica Hepburn, author of 'The Pursuit of Motherhood’, former executive director of the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith and founder of Fertility Fest, underwent eleven rounds of unsuccessful IVF, multiple miscarriages and a life-threatening ectopic pregna

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