Father to sue Polish Government over school textbook criticism of IVF
A Polish man whose daughter was conceived via IVF plans to sue the education minister and an author over a passage in a new textbook...
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Image by Matthew Daniels via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts human cells, showing the stages of cell division.
New CRISPR application uncovers Alzheimer's disease mechanisms
A form of CRISPR which allows genes to be turned on and off has been used to investigate the role of genetic variants that affect the microglia cells, in the development of Alzheimer's disease...
Image by Christoph Bock/Max Planck Institute for Informatics via Wikimedia Commons. Depicts a DNA molecule that is methylated on both strands on the centre cytosine.
Light shed on epigenetic maintenance of ovarian reserve
Egg cells are kept in a form of stasis from when they are first formed in the fetus until they mature in adulthood, by a protein which regulates transcription, a new study in mice has shown...
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.
Genetic risk considered in diagnosis of prostate cancer
Polygenic risk scores could help GPs to decide which patients to refer for prostate biopsies...
Mitochondrial donation embryos appear to develop normally
Embryos containing donated mitochondria, created via a method intended to avoid the transmission of mitochondrial disease, seem similar to those created via IVF with ICSI...
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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.
Game Review: DNA Discoveries
Genomics England has created its version of a Top Trumps game – DNA Discoveries, 'the game where genomic science breakthroughs go head-to-head'...
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Plus ça change... The arguments for embryo research need to move on
by Professor Anna Smajdor
Dr Anna Smajdor responds to Dr John Appleby's argument for extending the 14-day limit, suggesting that not as much has changed in recent decades as he has assumed...
FILM: Authority over Assisted Reproduction – What Powers Should the HFEA Have?
by BioNews
This film documents a PET event about the powers wielded by the UK's statutory regulator of fertility treatment and embryo research, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority...