Embryonic stem cells shown to promote self-renewal
New research into how embryonic stem cells renew themselves could pave the way for tissue and organ regeneration therapies...
News
Human genes renamed as Microsoft Excel reads them as dates
Twenty-seven human genes have been renamed by the HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC) over the past year due to Excel misreading their symbols as dates...
Image by Peter Artymiuk via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts the shadow of a DNA double helix, on a background that shows the fluorescent banding of the output from a DNA sequencing machine.
Privacy questions after Blackstone acquires Ancestry
What will happen to users' health data? Privacy advocates are concerned after Ancestry is bought by private equity group Blackstone...
How human sperm really swim
Research using high-precision 3D microscopy has overturned 350-year-old observations about how sperm swim...
Coronavirus may infect embryos early in pregnancy
New evidence suggests that embryos may be susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 viral infection, the virus responsible for COVID-19...
Frozen IVF embryos do not increase chance of pregnancy
The use of frozen rather than fresh embryos in IVF does not increase the chance of a successful pregnancy, newly published data shows...
Longer education may lower risk for people with Alzheimer's gene
A link has been discovered between educational attainment and the formation of Alzheimer's disease precursory symptoms...
Reviews
Book Review: Designing Babies — How technology is changing the ways we create children
The field of assisted reproduction has evolved at a rapid pace over the past 40 years and fertility patients are now faced with a plethora of treatment options...
TV Review: Our Baby — A modern miracle
The journey towards parenthood can be one of the most rewarding experiences in a lifetime...
Comment
COVID-19 and infertility: thoughts, feelings and coping with clinic closure
by Dr China Harrison
The COVID-19 pandemic caused fertility clinic closures worldwide...