Synthetic stem cells repair damaged hearts
Researchers in the US and China have developed a 'synthetic stem cell' that can repair tissue damaged by a heart attack...
Researchers in the US and China have developed a 'synthetic stem cell' that can repair tissue damaged by a heart attack...
Researchers in the USA have shown that a severe form of premenstrual syndrome (PMS) may be caused by irregular gene expression, which leads to atypical responses to sex hormones...
Scientists have discovered a new set of proteins that can block the CRISPR/Cas9 system...
Patron of the Progress Educational Trust, Baroness Mary Warnock, has been awarded the highest honour in the New Year's Honours list 2017, having been made a Companion of Honour for her 'services to charity and children with special educational needs'...
The type of culture media used in IVF can more than double the chance of producing healthy embryos and significantly affect chances of successful conception...
by Ayala Ochert
Implanting two embryos can reduce IVF success by a quarter if one of the embryos is of poorer quality, new research suggests...
A Dutch IVF clinic is currently under investigation after it came to light that dozens of its patients might have been fertilised by the wrong sperm — half of whom are pregnant or have already given birth...
by Lucas Taylor
The question of who constitutes family is a modern philosophical quandary. Given the debate in this area, Veerle Provoost's TED talk is quite topical...
by Rebecca Carr
Avalanche is a courageous and intimate account of Australian novelist Julia Leigh's attempts to have a child through IVF...
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The 14-day rule: calling time on embryo research
by Dr Valerie Shaikly
The second session of the Progress Educational Trust's annual conference 'Rethinking the Ethics of Embryo Research: Genome Editing, 14 Days and Beyond', looked at new embryo images that have potential to challenge the 14-day rule and discussed the potenti
Should the 14-day limit on human embryo research be extended?
by Baroness Mary Warnock
As the Progress Educational Trust's Patron, Baroness Mary Warnock, is made a Companion of Honour in the New Year Honours List 2017, she offers her thoughts on whether the 14-day limit on human embryo research (which she originally proposed in 1984) should