The Government has announced a two-year storage extension for eggs, sperm and embryos to give people extra time to access fertility services, whilst the UK tackles the coronavirus pandemic...
CRISPR has been used, for the first time, to identify novel genes that are key drivers of aggressive chronic myeloid leukaemia...
The genetic code alone cannot account for all of the information needed for one organism to reproduce, and more attention should be paid to other components and attributes of the fertilised egg, two new papers suggest...
Genome-edited human stem cells from diabetic patients have been shown to successfully reverse diabetes in mice...
Many cells in the inner lining of the uterus may carry cancer-driving mutations in their DNA from an early point in life, even though these cells appear normal under the microscope...
The UK's first fully funded NHS IVF clinic is at risk of closure after it was revealed that the hospital cannot afford a much-needed £10m refurbishment...
The first 'virtual embryo' has been created to help understand early embryo development and the evolution of one single cell into many cells of different types...
A fertility clinic has been ordered to disclose records pertaining to the use of a dead patient's sperm to the personal representative of the patient's estate...
Sir Isaac Newton's famous quote 'If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants' pays homage to the early scholars whose work paved the way for Newton's own discoveries...
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Improving choices for fertility patients during a pandemic
by Sarah Norcross
We welcome the UK government's two-year extension to the legal limit on the storage of eggs, sperm and embryos, but more needs to be done for fertility patients during and after the coronavirus pandemic...
FILM: Frozen Fertility - The Challenges of Storing Eggs, Sperm and Embryos (Part 6)
by BioNews
The sixth in a series of films documenting a recent Progress Educational Trust/Scottish Government event on medical, ethical, legal, social and policy aspects of cryopreservation, featuring a panel discussion chaired by Professor Allan Pacey of the University of Sheffield...