Obituary: Frank Dobson, the politician pivotal to PET
The former Labour health secretary Frank Dobson, whose contributions in Parliament helped to pass the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act, passed away on 11 November 2019, aged 79...
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Mitochondrial donation
A reproductive option that was developed for the purpose of avoiding the transmission of mitochondrial disease from mother to child. It involves creating an embryo using nuclear DNA from the prospective parents, and mitochondria (including mitochondrial DNA) from a donor. It is sometimes referred to as MDT (which stands for 'mitochondrial donation treatment') or as MRT (which can stand for either 'mitochondrial replacement therapy' or 'mitochondrial replacement techniques'). There are also specific mitochondrial donation techniques that have their own acronyms.
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Image by Peter Artymiuk via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts the shadow of a DNA double helix, on a background that shows the fluorescent banding of the output from a DNA sequencing machine.
Event Review: Transforming Medicine - The Promise of Human Genome Editing for Rare and Genetic Disease
At the 2019 FORUM Annual Lecture at the Academy of Medical Sciences in London, Dr John Leonard, president and chief executive officer at Intellia Therapeutics gave an enlightening overview of the work they are doing towards clinical application of genome editing and his thoughts on the general genome editing field...
Is the UK fertility sector facing a tipping point?
Rarely a day goes by without the UK media mentioning assisted reproduction and the fertility sector. Whether it's the latest research innovation, the growth in DNA testing and matching websites, the funding and commissioning of fertility services or repor
DNA study may have implications for mitochondrial donation
Mitochondria are not as interchangeable as originally thought, with implications for the selection of donors for mitochondrial donation...
US scientists push for mitochondrial donation legalisation
Scientists and patient advocates are lobbying US lawmakers to allow mitochondrial donation to be used to help avoid severe mitochondrial disease...