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Fertility and Infertility
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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Fertility and Infertility

Genetics and Genomics
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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Genetics and Genomics

Surrogacy
Image by Dr Christina Weis. © Christina Weis

Surrogacy

Genome Editing
Image by Matthew Daniels via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts human cells, showing the stages of cell division.
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Genome Editing

IVF and Fertility Treatment
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts equipment used for embryo biopsy.
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IVF and Fertility Treatment

Law and Regulation
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.

Law and Regulation

Embryo Research
Image by K Hardy via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human embryo at the blastocyst stage (about six days after fertilisation) 'hatching' out of the zona pellucida.
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Embryo Research

Donor Conception
Image by Bill McConkey via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts sperm swimming towards an egg.
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Donor Conception

Stem Cells
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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Stem Cells

Mitochondrial Donation
Image by the University of Edinburgh via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts cells with organelles (colour-enhanced electron micrograph of cells, showing nuclei in green and mitochondria in red).
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Mitochondrial Donation

Epigenetics
Image by Christoph Bock/Max Planck Institute for Informatics via Wikimedia Commons. Depicts a DNA molecule that is methylated on both strands on the centre cytosine.
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Epigenetics

Bioethics
Image by Bill Sanderson via the Wellcome Collection, © Wellcome Trust Ltd 1997. Depicts the gyri of the Thinker's brain as a maze of choices in biomedical ethics (based on Auguste Rodin's 'The Thinker').
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Bioethics

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