Human brain organoids have been kept in culture for more than five years, extending the period over which these models of human brain development have previously been maintained...
More UK families have reported that the wrong donor sperm or eggs were used in fertility treatment at clinics in Northern Cyprus...
Gene therapy designed to deliver a healthy copy of the ALPK3 gene can restore heart function, raising the possibility of a future treatment for some forms of inherited cardiomyopathy...
A baby with a severe heart defect has been born in Texas, at the centre of a custody battle and wider discussion around surrogacy...
A baby taking part in the Generation Study has been identified as carrying a mutation linked to the rare condition adrenoleukodystrophy, prompting his older sibling to also be tested...
An approach based on machine learning may reveal signatures of disease in prenatal tissues based on information obtained from postnatal blood samples...
Dr Dan Jacobson reviews 'A Body That Works', a complex drama exploring surrogacy, identity, and the relationships shaped by fertility treatment...
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Can PGT-A give us an accurate picture of the genetic content of embryos?
by Dr Desislava Staneva
PGT-A is widely used to assess the chromosome status of IVF embryos, but how accurately can a biopsy of just a handful of cells predict an embryo's genetic makeup? Dr Desislava Staneva explains why interpreting PGT-A results is more complex than it may first appear...
Introducing the UK Mitochondrial Disease Research Institute
by Trudy Hope and 1 others
The Lily Foundation's new UK Mitochondrial Disease Research Institute aims to bring together patients, researchers, clinicians, data and biological resources to help accelerate mitochondrial disease research and turn scientific discoveries into new treatments…