First baby born following womb transplant in UK
Amy Isabel has become the first UK baby born following a womb transplant...
News
Baby born to wrong parents after embryo mix-up at Monash IVF
A woman has discovered she gave birth to another couple's baby due to an IVF embryo mix-up...
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.
Polygenic scores could 'turn the tide on prostate cancer'
An at-home spit test to identify patients at risk of prostate cancer, using a polygenic risk score, has been shown to outperform current testing methods...
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.
David Liu, pioneer of base editing and prime editing wins major science prize
Professor David Liu, the developer of base editing and prime editing, has won the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, the largest annual monetary award in science...
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.
Algorithm developed to identify vulnerable tumours
An algorithm called PRRDetect has been developed to identify immunotherapy-susceptible cancers...
Reviews
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
Event Review: Reproductive Justice in a Changing Climate
A panel discussion and exhibition of social and reproductive challenges and injustice around the world, being exacerbated by climate change and cultural conventions...
Comment
Fertility in Flux: What Can State-Funded IVF Do for Population Growth?
by Jen Willows
Five experts discuss the role of government-funded fertility treatment in addressing the population decline and more. This PET event complements the earlier event 'Is Fertility Treatment a Solution to Population Decline?'...
23andMe bankruptcy: Potential data risks for the donor-conceived community
by Dr Anna Nelson and 1 others
We argue that this latest episode in the 23andMe saga illustrates that the current regulatory status quo pertaining to donor anonymity in the UK renders members of the donor conceived community particularly vulnerable to harms associated with the (mis)use of their DNA data...
Remembering our friend Alessandro Coatti
by Sandy Starr and 1 others
Following the death of Alessandro Coatti – an expert in science and policy aspects of genome editing, who was much loved by his friends and colleagues – Sandy Starr and Sophia McCully pay tribute...
FILM: The Ethics of IVF Embryos – Science, Choice, and Family
by Anna Louie Sussman and 2 others
This film documents a discussion between author and journalist Anna Louie Sussman and bioethicists Insoo Hyun and Vardit Ravitsky, exploring issues raised by Sussman's New York Times series 'The Embryo Question'...