The ordinary form of cell division, in which a cell divides to produce two new cells that both have the same number of chromosomes as the original cell.
Mechanisms leading to aneuploidy in embryos can start right from the first DNA duplication, a new study has shown...
'Am I a child of something unspeakable?' HBO's documentary Baby God released late last year is an exposé of a prominent Nevada gynaecologist who over the course of his career is thought to have impregnated hundreds of women with his own sperm...
Researchers from Kumamoto University in Japan have revealed a potential genetic cause for infertility in a new study published in Developmental Cell...
A 'twisted knot' of DNA, known as an i-motif, has been found in living cells for the first time, raising questions about its function...
How DNA is accurately split between cells when they divide has finally been solved by researchers...
A seemingly brilliant hypothesis of preimplantation genetic screening arose in the 1990s when Dr Yuri Verlinsky proposed using polar body biopsies to detect chromosomal abnormalities in embryos prior to transfer in IVF...
Healthy embryos are discarded
Unfertilised mouse egg cells that have been made to divide can develop into healthy offspring by the injection of sperm, according to a new study...
A technique to generate mouse embryonic stem cells could, if repeated in human cells, improve access to stem cells by using fertilised eggs that would previously have been discarded...
Severe depression speeds up the ageing process of our cells, researchers have found...
Scientists have identified a gene involved in an incurable skin disease. Using advanced screening techniques they discovered several mutations in this gene in people with punctuate palmoplantar keratoderma (PPK)...
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