The structure within a eukaryotic cell that contains the vast majority of its genetic information.
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...
Professor Sir John Gurdon, pioneer of developmental biology and Nobel Prize winner, has died aged 92...
Egg cells have been created from human skin cell DNA, which have then been fertilised with sperm to create embryos...
Professor Barry Bavister explains how he became the first person ever to witness IVF in humans, when he looked down a microscope in 1968 while working alongside IVF pioneer Professor Sir Robert Edwards...
Human eggs appear to be protected from the age-related accumulation of genetic mutations in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)...
Dr Andy Greenfield explores what it took to achieve the birth of eight healthy babies with donated mitochondria – not just scientific and technical advances but also ethical inquiry, public and patient engagement, the introduction of new laws and regulations, and the careful establishment of a new clinical pathway...
Eight children have been born in the UK following mitochondrial donation IVF. All eight children have made normal developmental progress, and none of them show any sign of mitochondrial disease...
Exercise can induce protective gene activity in the brain cells of Alzheimer's model mice, uncovering new understanding of disease mechanisms...
Several epigenetic pathways have been found to play a role in the spatial organisation of DNA during early embryonic development in mice...
A novel way to control CRISPR genome editing using focused ultrasound has been discovered...
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