Two-year-old to remain with her birth parents in Assuta case
An Israeli Court ruled that a child born following an embryo mix-up at an IVF clinic should remain with her birth parents...
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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.
Frequent blood donors benefit from genetic changes in stem cells
Frequent blood donations have been correlated to favourable genetic changes that allow for healthy cell growth...
Genetic switch essential for blood stem cell regeneration
A genetic switch that can increase blood stem cell regeneration and aid in the treatment of blood disorders has been uncovered...
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.
CRISPR genome editing eliminates head and neck tumours in 50 percent of experiments
Using CRISPR to edit a single gene in mice with head and neck cancer led to half of them becoming tumour-free...
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.
Gene changes due to maternal smoking more prevalent in males
Male fetuses and adult sons of women who smoke while pregnant exhibit more changes in gene expression than females...
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Podcast Review: AntiSocial – Surrogacy
Surrogacy is the topic of this episode of the the BBC podcast AntiSocial. Pupil Barrister, Dr Sylvie Armstrong, reviews the episode for BioNews...
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'Super' sperm donors not so super, warns judge
by Natalie Sutherland
PET Trustee and family law solicitor Natalie Sutherland discusses the case of A v B and others, recently made public by a senior UK judge...
FILM: Whole Genome Sequencing at Birth – Implementing the Generation Study
by BioNews
This film documents a PET event discussing the Generation Study – an NHS-embedded research study which is sequencing the whole genomes of 100,000 newborn babies...