A trans-Atlantic consortium of laboratories has announced that the mouse is the latest organism to have its genome mapped. Scientists from Canada, the US and the UK say they have a map of 98 percent of the genes in the laboratory mouse and expect to have a complete sequence by...
A 37-year old woman is said to be considering legal action against her former husband, after he requested that their frozen embryos be destroyed. Lorraine Hadley wants to use the embryos to have a child without the involvement of Wayne Hadley, who left her three months after their last...
Researchers in Japan have shown that sufferers of painful limbs could find relief from their own stem cells. The team discovered that stem cells injected into 45 people with severe blood circulation problems in their legs led to the creation of new blood vessel networks, a process called angiogenesis. In...
Scientists in the United States have bemoaned the lack of embryonic stem (ES) cells available to American researchers. A year on from President Bush's announcement that only embryonic stem cell lines in existence before 9 August 2001 can be used in US labs, just 16 cell lines are available for...
A new study has suggested that many Europeans are descended from Middle Eastern farmers. Researchers at University College London collected DNA from a wide range of European males and looked for rare Y chromosome gene changes called unique event polymorphisms (UEPs) which are not thought to have occurred more than...
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Should PGD be considered case by case?
by Juliet Tizzard
Last week, we reported on the story of the Whitakers, whose request for preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) and tissue typing was refused by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA). Now that the discussion about the rights and wrongs of the request has died down a little, a broader debate...