FILM: Mary Warnock at 100 – The Architect of Embryo Law
This film documents a PET event marking the 100th birthday of the late Baroness Mary Warnock...
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Image by K Hardy via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human embryo at the blastocyst stage (about six days after fertilisation) 'hatching' out of the zona pellucida.
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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.
What Is the Embryo's Special Status in Law?
The third session of the PET 2024 Annual Conference, 'What Is the Embryo's Special Status in Law?', examined human embryos from a legal perspective...
What Is the Embryo's Special Status in Ethics?
The fourth session of the PET 2024 Annual Conference, 'What Is the Embryo's Special Status in the Lab?', tackled ethical aspects of the status of the human embryo...
Image by K Hardy via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human embryo at the blastocyst stage (about six days after fertilisation) 'hatching' out of the zona pellucida.
UK regulator recommends extending human embryo research limit to 28 days
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has recommended that the law should be changed to extend the 14-day limit on human embryo research...
Image by K Hardy via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human embryo at the blastocyst stage (about six days after fertilisation) 'hatching' out of the zona pellucida.
What Is the Embryo's Special Status in the Clinic?
The first session of the PET 2024 Annual Conference, 'What Is the Embryo's Special Status in the Clinic?', offered clinical perspectives on the human embryo....
Image by K Hardy via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human embryo at the blastocyst stage (about six days after fertilisation) 'hatching' out of the zona pellucida.
What Is the Embryo's Special Status in the Lab?
The second session of the PET 2024 Annual Conference, 'What Is the Embryo's Special Status in the Lab?', focused on the opportunities and challenges presented by using human embryos in research...
Image by Sílvia Ferreira, Cristina Lopo and Eileen Gentleman via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a single human stem cell embedded within a porous hydrogel matrix (false colour).
Development paused in human blastoids
Stem cell models of early preimplantation human embryos have been shown to retain the capacity to pause development, using a mechanism observed in other mammals...
Image by K Hardy via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human embryo at the blastocyst stage (about six days after fertilisation) 'hatching' out of the zona pellucida.
Early mouse embryos are prone to DNA replication errors
During the first cell divisions of mouse embryos a period of instability has been uncovered, which translates into chromosomal errors...
PET Podcast: Where Art Meets ART – Creative Exploration of Fertility Research and Treatment
Bringing you PET events as a podcast. In the 21st episode of its podcast PET looks at the use of artworks to improve understanding and advance knowledge of the causes of infertility, with speakers including junior and senior researchers, a glass artist and a laboratory manager...
Image by Sílvia Ferreira, Cristina Lopo and Eileen Gentleman via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a single human stem cell embedded within a porous hydrogel matrix (false colour).
First dedicated guidance for embryo model research published by experts
A code of practice to govern the use of stem-cell based embryo models in research has been developed by an interdisciplinary group of experts, drawn from institutions across the UK...
