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Professors Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier have won the 2017 Japan Prize for their work on the genome-editing technology CRISPR/Cas9....
The parents of a deceased Israeli man have had their request to use his sperm rejected on appeal...
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Extending the 14-day rule: Never mind Brexit, the whole world is watching
by Dr Ciara Staunton
Some have suggested that, after Brexit, British influence on rules about embryo research will be diluted. But this is far from true...