A recent study has found that as many as one in 15 men carry mutations in their sperm that could impact the health of their children...
Ring chromosome 20 syndrome is an ultra-rare difficult to treat epilepsy, often accompanied by intellectual disability and behaviour disorder...
Session 46 was held online to discuss and share the best practice for understanding and communicating mosaicism...
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The MIT Technology Review has released excerpts of unpublished research from Dr He Jiankui's manuscript that ignored ethical and scientific norms when creating the world's first gene-edited twins...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...
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
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