Event Review: International IVF Initiative — My mosaic embryo
Session 46 was held online to discuss and share the best practice for understanding and communicating mosaicism...
Session 46 was held online to discuss and share the best practice for understanding and communicating mosaicism...
by Emma Lamb
Errors in the genetic material of embryonic cells following IVF are more common and less damaging in normal human development than previously thought...
It's just over a year since Dr He Jiankui's controversial announcement that he had created the world's first genome-edited babies...
The MIT Technology Review has released excerpts of unpublished research from Dr He Jiankui's manuscript that ignored ethical and scientific norms when creating the world's first gene-edited twins...
US scientists have successfully delivered CRISPR genome editing components to human sperm cells for the first time...
DNA shed from early embryos could one day provide an alternative way of genetically testing them without having to do a biopsy, suggests a small pilot study...
by Professor Robin Lovell-Badge
The problem of fertility preservation for girls and women undergoing cancer treatments has been a subject of research for many decades. The recent study by McLaughlin and colleagues from Professor Evelyn Telfer's lab at the University of Edinburgh, UK, is
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
A genome editing technique called 'base editing' has been used to correct the mutation causing the inherited blood disorder beta-thalassemia in human embryos...
Picture this - it's the last day in the office before the summer holidays, you're looking forward to some sunshine and warmth, email auto-response set, and all ready to go. Then, all of a sudden: the news...
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