The Government has unveiled plans to allow female same-sex couples to access six rounds of insemination, ahead of IVF, on the NHS...
Heritable genetic variants associated with a blood disorder that is a risk factor for leukaemia and heart disease have been identified...
Early human oocytes remodel their metabolic activity, which enables them to remain dormant and reproductively viable for decades...
A new method of gene therapy has shown initial success in treating patients with the bleeding disorder haemophilia B...
North Central London Integrated Care Board (NCL ICB) has introduced a new single fertility policy, commencing today, that enables those eligible, and under 40, to have three cycles of IVF and six embryos transferred under NHS funding. Emily Vine reports...
Mechanisms leading to aneuploidy in embryos can start right from the first DNA duplication, a new study has shown...
Repetitive sequences in noncoding DNA may lead to the generation of cancer-causing mutations...
The scope of DNA and genetic testing can be an extremely complicated and difficult topic for the average person without a scientific degree to understand. It has become much more accessible since genomic sequencing became cheaper and genetic testing is now deployed in a wide range of health settings...
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Was the Women's Health Strategy worth the wait?
by Sarah Norcross
The much anticipated and long overdue Women's Health Strategy for England was finally published by the UK government last week. Director at PET, Sarah Norcross, discusses the implications of the strategy for women accessing fertility treatment in England...
Why the UK should extend the 14-day rule to 28 days
by Dr John Appleby
Lecturer in medical ethics at Lancaster University, Dr John Appleby looks at the reasons why the 14-day rule for embryo research was imposed in the first place, and why it should be reconsidered...
200 Years of Mendel: From Peas to Personalised Medicine
by Dr Yvonne Collins
To celebrate Gregor Mendel's 200th birthday, PET and Genomics England held an event reflecting on what science and medicine have inherited from Mendel and what the future holds regarding our understanding and treatment of genetic disorders in the era of whole genome sequencing...