Alcohol influences telomere length and accelerates biological ageing according to a genetic-based study...
The use of CRISPR genome editing in immune cells increases genomic instability, which may be a risk factor for cancer, according to new research...
Mechanisms leading to aneuploidy in embryos can start right from the first DNA duplication, a new study has shown...
Ethicists, Professor Wybo Dondorp and Professor Guido de Wert, summarise the 2021 evaluation of the Dutch Embroys Act with regard to the legal definition of an embryo, and how this relates to the recommendation to lift the ban on creating embryos for research...
The safety and efficiency of CRISPR-based genome editing may be improved by using an enzyme that cuts just one strand of DNA instead of both...
Changes that occur to DNA that could cause IVF embryos to stop dividing have been identified...
Prior to 2020, genetic mutations weren't something that regularly made the news. Now, two-and-a-half years out from the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, new genetic variants continue to hit the headlines, and genomic mutations – in a virus, at least – are something the public are much more aware of...
Variants in three genes have been linked to an increased risk of a woman creating aneuploid embryos while undergoing IVF and used to create a risk score using machine learning...
The use of polygenic risk scores for embryo selection has come up repeatedly over the past year so I was excited to attend a talk on the subject at the Fertility 2022 conference...
Prenatal genetic test results need to be communicated better, according to the US Food and Drug Administration...
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