Brain organoids created from human fetal tissue
Brain organoids developed from fetal tissue offer a new way to model brain diseases and aid in drug testing....
A cell that can multiply and give rise to a variety of other, more specialised cell types. For example, stem cells in the bone marrow make many different blood cells.
Brain organoids developed from fetal tissue offer a new way to model brain diseases and aid in drug testing....
The fourth session of the PET 2023 Annual Conference 'Looking to the Law: In the Clinic, in the Lab, in the Court' featured expert speakers in areas of embryo research, fertility counselling, and reproductive medical law...
Two gene therapies for the treatment of sickle cell disease have been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration...
The Irish Government has approved amendments to legally recognise children born via domestic altruistic surrogacy, and international surrogacy arrangements...
Methods for modelling development, including stem-cell-based embryo models, have been named Method of the Year by Nature Methods...
by Dr Lien De Proost and 1 others
Dr Lien De Proost and Dr Nienke de Graeff, bioethics academics at Leiden University Medical Centre, explore the possibility of doubling the 14-day limit on embryo research in the Netherlands...
Further political debate on whether embryo research should be extended to a 28-day limit may be postponed following the unforeseen far right win during last week's Dutch national election…
by Yan Lau
Injecting stem cells into the brains of patients with multiple sclerosis is safe and may stop the disease causing further damage, according to an early-stage clinical trial...
Adults with thalassemia, a severe genetic blood disorder, will be offered potentially curative stem cell transplants on the NHS for the first time...
by Yan Lau
A gene therapy treatment for sickle cell disease has led to a build-up of cells with genetic mutations that make them grow faster, increasing blood-cancer risk, researchers revealed...
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