Event Review: Gene Editing – A new legal frontier
Professor Imogen Goold's lecture about the ethical issues surrounding the use of genome editing in humans gets Ruth Retassie thinking about how our society treats disability...
Cells are the building blocks of all living things. A human body is made up of around 100 trillion cells (100 million million).
Professor Imogen Goold's lecture about the ethical issues surrounding the use of genome editing in humans gets Ruth Retassie thinking about how our society treats disability...
by Dr Geraldine Jowett and 1 others
Identifying the defining characteristics of different states of stem cell pluripotency could hold the key to improving human stem cell-based embryo models...
Gene therapy could provide a one-off, sustained treatment for patients with severe alcohol use disorder, a study in monkeys suggests...
The family of Henrietta Lacks is suing a second biotechnology company that profited from HeLa cells...
Mitochondrial genes in the heart, kidney, liver and lymph nodes are downregulated following COVID-19, findings in humans and mice have shown...
The family of Henrietta Lacks has reached a settlement with the biotechnology company that profited from her cells...
Swiss scientists have engineered human cells to respond to an electrical current, which could pave the way for the development of wearable medical devices...
Here, Dr Alexander Ware reviews two podcasts addressing recent advances in the generation of stem-cell-based embryo models, with the hope of finding out what makes an embryo an embryo...
by Nourin Khan and 1 others
Fetal cells invade the uterine lining without triggering the maternal immune system, a new cell atlas has shown...
Proteins that exist in the junctions between cells have been shown to help create signalling gradients crucial for cell differentiation in human embryo models...
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