China's ethics guidelines – A new era for human genome editing?
What do China's new ethical guidlines tell us about the country's changing attitude to human genome editing? Professor Joy Zhang reads between the lines...
Egg and sperm cells (also known as gametes) and their precursors.
What do China's new ethical guidlines tell us about the country's changing attitude to human genome editing? Professor Joy Zhang reads between the lines...
New guidelines concerning the ethics of human genome editing research have been set by China's Ministry of Science and Technology...
For the first time, human stem cells that were originally skin cells have been reprogrammed into early-stage sperm and egg precursors...
Organoids grown from testicular cells of young mice have shown characteristics of normal mouse testes and have potential to produce sperm...
The genome of chickens has been edited to make them partially resistant to infection with bird flu...
by Jake Knox
Although sperm cells do contain some mitochondria, scientists have found that these mitochondria do not contain intact mitochondrial DNA...
Russian troops mobilised to fight in Ukraine will be offered sperm freezing and fertility treatment, it has been announced...
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