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.
A gene normally active only in reproductive cells may drive genetic instability in aggressive breast cancers, offering a potential new treatment target...
A novel method for visualising human blastocyst development – which has led to findings with implications for PGT-A – is described by Dr Ahmed Abdelbaki, a postdoctoral researcher in the Niakan Lab at the University of Cambridge...
A newly discovered complex formed from cohesin and proteins is essential in the production of sperm...
Using CRISPR to edit a single gene in mice with head and neck cancer led to half of them becoming tumour-free...
Building on his presentation at the 2024 PET Annual Conference, Julian Hitchcock discusses how best to define the human embryo for the purposes of law and regulation...
The effectiveness of radiotherapy in killing cancer cells depends on the DNA repair pathway the cell uses to fix radiation-induced damage...
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...
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