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.
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...
Blood vessels grown in the lab in five days helped to restore blood flow and reduce tissue damage in mice...
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…
The International Society for Stem Cell Research hosted a webinar to present the recommendations of its Embryo Models Working Group, which has been drafting updated guidance on research involving SCBEMs...
Marta Górna and Maciej Śmiechowski discuss mandatory donation requirements for unused embryos in Poland...
New possibilities for culturing human eggs and sperm in the laboratory have led the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority to consider whether the law in this area should be reviewed...
The first live human birth using a novel technology that uses induced pluripotent stem cells to support egg maturation outside the body has been reported...
A molecule that can be used to enhance CRISPR genome editing also causes unintended destruction of large sections of the genome in human cells...
The story of IVF, from its early years in the 1960s to the birth in 1978 of Louise Brown, is depicted in this biographical drama, reviewed by former IVF patient Susan Tranfield-Thomas...
Dr Roger Gosden comments from the USA on the new Code of Practice for the Generation and Use of Human Stem-Cell-Based Embryo Models...
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