Ancient viral DNA plays role in early embryo development
Viral genetic material, integrated into our DNA millions of years ago, has an essential role in a key early stage in embryo development...
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...
A placenta model, developed at the University of Cambridge, is enabling scientists to better understand the underlying cause of reproductive disorders...
by Yan Lau
Lord Robert Winston, pioneer of IVF, award-winning broadcaster and member of the House of Lords is the subject of the Naked Scientists 'Titans of Science' podcast...
The UK's 14-day legal limit on human embryo research should be the subject of public discussion, researchers have said...
A human embryo model created from adult stem cells shows the production of blood cells during early development...
Dr Elpida Fragouli, a highly accomplished scientist in the field of preimplantation genetic testing and volunteer writer for BioNews, sadly died at the end of last year due to cancer…
by Sandy Starr
This film documents a lecture by Sandy Starr – deputy director of PET – about the life and legacy of JBS Haldane, who at one time was the best-known scientist in Britain and who helped to pioneer the idea of IVF...
The third session of the PET 2023 Annual Conference 'Challenges and Changes: What's Happening Across Europe?' brought together three eminent speakers working in reproductive medicine, fertility preservation and ethics…
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