Gender based prohibitions in the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology (HFE) Act 1990 is the UK's legislation regulating the storage and use of human eggs, sperm and embryos...
A group of techniques that look at the genetic material of embryos created through IVF. These include:
PGT-A: preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy – also known as PGS (preimplantation genetic screening)
PGT-M: preimplantation genetic testing for monogenic conditions – also known as PGD (preimplantation genetic diagnosis)
PGT-SR: preimplantation genetic testing for structural chromosome rearrangements
PGT-P: preimplantation genetic testing for polygenic risk scores
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology (HFE) Act 1990 is the UK's legislation regulating the storage and use of human eggs, sperm and embryos...
The UK Government recently published a new genomic healthcare strategy. In doing so, it envisages creating the most advanced genomic healthcare system in the world and ensuring the UK remains a global leader in genetics and genomics...
In this episode of 'DNA Today's' series about infertility, certified genetic counsellor Jennifer Eccles, head of genetic counselling at Genomic Prediction, put her case for a new type of preimplantation genetic testing, called PGT-P...
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