Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts equipment used for embryo biopsy.
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In vitro
Latin for 'within the glass'. Refers to experiments performed in a controlled environment like a test tube or culture media, rather than inside a living organism.
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Image by Matthew Daniels via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts human cells, showing the stages of cell division.
Chemotherapy resistance in solid tumours overcome with CRISPR
CRISPR-based genome editing has been used to overcome chemotherapy resistance in lung tumours by disabling a tumour-specific mutation...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts equipment used for embryo biopsy.
Robert Edwards at 100: Remembering an IVF Visionary
The enduring legacy of Professor Sir Robert Edwards' life and work was explored in an online event produced by PET, in partnership with the Association of Reproductive and Clinical Scientists...
Image by Matthew Daniels via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts human cells, showing the stages of cell division.
CRISPR may lead to improvements in cancer immunotherapies
CRISPR/Cas9 has been used to identify genome editing targets that significantly enhance the efficiency of a targeted therapy for myeloma, a type of cancer...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
Cannabis use may affect women's eggs
Cannabis may directly interfere with women's ability to conceive by affecting the health of their eggs...
Working with Robert Edwards at the dawn of IVF
Professor Barry Bavister explains how he became the first person ever to witness IVF in humans, when he looked down a microscope in 1968 while working alongside IVF pioneer Professor Sir Robert Edwards...
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).
The third parent
Following the news that healthy children have been born in the UK following mitochondrial donation IVF, Professor Rachel Bowlby explains why so-called 'three-parent babies' are nothing new...
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.
'Road map' proposed for extending embryo research limit to 28 days
An international group of experts has proposed a 'road map' suggesting how the longstanding 14-day limit on human embryo research might be extended to 28 days...
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).
Blood vessel organoids support blood flow and tissue healing
Blood vessels grown in the lab in five days helped to restore blood flow and reduce tissue damage in mice...
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).
Human stem-cell-based embryo models: ethical and legal challenges
Professor Emma Cave argues that even if human stem-cell-based embryo models were to replicate embryos so accurately that they ceased to be 'models', there would still – even then – be good reasons to distinguish them from embryos for regulatory purposes…