No premature ageing in clones of clones
A team of researchers based at the University of Hawaii has shown that the ageing process is not accelerated in successive generations of cloned mice. Earlier studies carried out on Dolly the sheep indicated that cloned animals might age prematurely. But the US scientists, who published their results in last...
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Frozen embryo mix-up is not a disaster for IVF
by Juliet Tizzard
This week's news that a number of frozen embryos stored in two UK IVF clinics have gone missing could be a disaster for the couples involved. If the embryos don't turn up à which they may well do à those couples will have to start their IVF treatment from scratch if they...