FILM: When to Stop Storage – Improving Conversations About Unused Embryos
This film documents a PET event about what happens to unused IVF embryos after fertility treatment is completed...
by BioNews
This film documents a PET event about what happens to unused IVF embryos after fertility treatment is completed...
Embryo models generated from human stem cells have provided insights into how identical twins develop...
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A project led by Cambridge Reproduction, in partnership with PET, is currently developing a Code of Practice for research involving stem-cell-based embryo models. A new public dialogue report published ahead of the Code explores people's hopes, concerns and sensitivities...
Inactivating a gene that codes for a protein involved in early mouse development results in the formation of two extra hindlimbs in the place of external genitalia...
As stem-cell-based embryo models (SCBEMs) become increasingly complex, they also raise big questions – how do we define a human embryo, and what limits should be placed on SCBEM research?...
Heralding the technology behind SCBEMs as 'one of the 21st century's most dramatic scientific developments', Professor Emily Jackson's lecture was packed with fascinating legal and ethical commentary...
Alabama legislators have agreed new laws to protect IVF after the state Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are considered unborn children...
Viral genetic material, integrated into our DNA millions of years ago, has an essential role in a key early stage in embryo development...
Throughout 2024, PET will be celebrating the 25th birthday of BioNews. BioNews launched as a weekly digital publication in March 1999, and today we are publishing our 1225th edition...
Developing guidelines for research using fetal tissues in Japan, and 'the argument of potential' as an ethical consideration for embryos and integrated embryo models are discussed in this Human Developmental Biology Initiative ethics seminar...
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