'Old' human blood cells transformed into 'young' brain cells
Researchers have turned an 80-year-old's blood precursor cells into neural stem cells, resetting the cells' 'biological age' in the process...
Cells are the building blocks of living things. A human body is made up of around 100 trillion cells.
Researchers have turned an 80-year-old's blood precursor cells into neural stem cells, resetting the cells' 'biological age' in the process...
Two research teams have used different DNA-recording technologies to trace cell lineages in developing mouse embryos...
The first UK patient has had his testicular tissue transplanted back; it was frozen prior to chemotherapy he had as a child...
The origins of the human brain can be traced back to two distinct groups of cells in the developing embryo...
by Jen Willows
A non-invasive form of PGT-A did not improve pregnancy rates in a clinical trial, but did reduce early miscarriages...
by Dr Kamal Ahuja and 1 others
Following two recent cases where a donor withdrew consent after patients created embryos using their sperm, the medical and scientific directors of London Sperm Bank call for UK law to be updated...
by Hafsa Nini
Children who have received platinum-based chemotherapy carry a distinct mutational signature in their livers as a result, as well as a higher level of mutations across various healthy tissues...
by Dr Tatiana Álvarez Giovannucci
Dolly the sheep became a global scientific celebrity when she was revealed in 1997. This documentary revisits her cloning, exploring both the science behind her creation and the ethical questions that captured the public imagination…
Dr Tom Turner explores Professor Jennifer Doudna's reflections on the discovery of CRISPR and the future of genome editing in this conversation, which examines one of the most transformative advances in modern biology…
PGT-A is widely used to assess the chromosome status of IVF embryos, but how accurately can a biopsy of just a handful of cells predict an embryo's genetic makeup? Dr Desislava Staneva explains why interpreting PGT-A results is more complex than it may first appear...
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