The UK government has committed to accelerating the development and approval of treatments for rare diseases, through major reforms to current regulation...
Alice MacDonald MP proposed a bill to introduce a legal right to paid time off for people undergoing fertility treatment...
An embryo that originally had three pronuclei resulted in a healthy baby after one pronucleus was microsurgically removed...
The discovery of new associations between genes and obesity has highlighted the importance of including individuals of non-European ancestry in genetic studies...
A UK judge has granted a parental order in a case concerning a surrogacy arrangement abroad, where the surrogate could not be traced...
Genomic variation focusing on antibiotic resistance of Haemophilus influenzae has been categorised on a global scale...
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the DNA double helix structure, has died at the age of 97...
Dr Zaina Mahmoud listened to this audio documentary looking at egg freezing through academic research and personal testimony...
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Seeing the unseen: Live imaging of late-stage preimplantation human embryos
by Dr Ahmed Abdelbaki
A novel method for visualising human blastocyst development – which has led to findings with implications for PGT-A – is described by Dr Ahmed Abdelbaki, a postdoctoral researcher in the Niakan Lab at the University of Cambridge...
WritingLife launches to grapple with the ethics of synthetic DNA
by Professor Anna Smajdor
Professor Anna Smajdor, a philosopher who has worked on ethics and synthetic biology for over 20 years, explains why synthetic DNA could change our world, and why we need ethical guidelines to deal with a profoundly new kind of life…
FILM: Robert Edwards at 100 – Part 4
by Alastair MacDonald
PET presents a series of talks celebrating the 100th birthday of the late IVF pioneer Professor Sir Robert Edwards. This fourth talk is by Alastair MacDonald, the second person (and first male) ever born who was conceived via IVF...