Man receives transplant of his frozen prepubescent testicular tissue
In a world first, doctors in Belgium have transplanted testicular tissue into an adult man after it was frozen prior to chemotherapy 16 years ago when he was a child...
In a world first, doctors in Belgium have transplanted testicular tissue into an adult man after it was frozen prior to chemotherapy 16 years ago when he was a child...
A blood test that detects very small amounts of tumour DNA in lung cancer patients may predict how well patients will respond to treatment and the likelihood of the cancer returning...
by Olivia Goff
The effectiveness of radiotherapy in killing cancer cells depends on the DNA repair pathway the cell uses to fix radiation-induced damage...
An artificial intelligence model can accurately predict changes in gene expression in any human cell type...
Unrepaired DNA damage lingers longer within cells than previously thought, potentially increasing cancer risk...
Women in fertility treatment are more likely to take medication that could harm a fetus before or during pregnancy, according to a study of over 57,000 births in Australia...
Dr Kay Elder remembers her work with Dr Robert Edwards and Dr Patrick Steptoe, and the early challenges and successes of IVF...
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The empirical embryo
by Julian Hitchcock
Building on his presentation at the 2024 PET Annual Conference, Julian Hitchcock discusses how best to define the human embryo for the purposes of law and regulation...
FILM: 40 Years of Egg Donation and Counting – What Have We Learned? What Happens Next?
by BioNews
This film documents a PET event marking 40 years since the announcement – in Australia – that a child had been born following egg donation for the first time...