Actress Sofia Vergara to be sued 'by her own embryos'
Star of the US TV show 'Modern Family', Sofia Vergara, is facing a lawsuit in the state of Louisiana that lists her own frozen embryos among the plaintiffs...
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Gene-targeted therapy successful in treating 'undruggable' colon cancer
Researchers have successfully treated a woman with colon cancer using her own immune cells to target a cancer-causing gene that had previously been considered 'undruggable'...
Hearings begin in CRISPR US patent dispute
Oral arguments from lawyers acting for the Broad Institute and the University of California, Berkeley, in the high-profile CRISPR/Cas9 patent dispute have been heard in Virginia...
Audit shows extent of IVF 'postcode lottery'
Only 16 percent of Clinical Commissioning Groups in England follow the national guidance on access to NHS fertility treatment, according to an audit by campaign group Fertility Fairness...
Image by Bill Sanderson via the Wellcome Collection, © Wellcome Trust Ltd 1990. Depicts Laocoön and his family (from Greek and Roman mythology) entwined in coils of DNA.
US Senate passes regenerative medicine act
Stem cell therapies could be granted accelerated approval by the US Food and Drug Administration as part of a new bill passed by the Senate last week...
Moderate exercise improves sperm quality and quantity
Moderate exercise improves sperm quality and quantity, according to new research...
Stem cell test could improve leukaemia treatment
Researchers have developed a stem cell test that could rapidly predict how patients with acute myeloid leukaemia will respond to treatment...
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IVF treatment in Bedfordshire — the low-hanging fruit of NHS cuts
by Richard Clothier
How the experience of being denied IVF on the NHS turned one man into a campaigner determined to improve the situation for the thousands of other infertile people...