How should mitochondrial donation operate in Australia?
Australia is on the cusp of legalising mitochondrial donation...
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Mitochondrial Donation
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Gender based prohibitions in the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology (HFE) Act 1990 is the UK's legislation regulating the storage and use of human eggs, sperm and embryos...
Ethics of genetically reconstituting oocytes
In the 16 December issue of Nature, researchers reported that the addition of eight transcription factors to pluripotent stem cells converted them into a primary oocyte-like cell...
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Australia announces conscience vote on mitochondrial donation
The Australian Parliament is set to have its first conscience vote on legislation allowing access to mitochondrial donation...
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Book Review: The Law of Assisted Reproduction
In this updated second edition of The Law of Assisted Reproduction, author Seamus Burns, Senior Lecturer in Law at Sheffield Hallam University, aimed to highlight the major features of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology (HFE) Act 2008 just over a decade since its inception, and eight years since the first edition of his book was published...
DNA study may have implications for mitochondrial donation
Mitochondria are not as interchangeable as originally thought, with implications for the selection of donors for mitochondrial donation...
US scientists push for mitochondrial donation legalisation
Scientists and patient advocates are lobbying US lawmakers to allow mitochondrial donation to be used to help avoid severe mitochondrial disease...
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First baby born in mitochondrial donation for infertility trial
A baby conceived via IVF using genetic information from three people has been born to a mother not affected by mitochondrial disease...
Image by Peter Artymiuk via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts the shadow of a DNA double helix, on a background that shows the fluorescent banding of the output from a DNA sequencing machine.
Book Review: Legalising Mitochondrial Donation
There are few areas of science more fiercely debated than assisted reproduction. Technologies initially developed to enable infertile individuals to have longed-for children have advanced, changing and re-defining the possibilities of human reproduction..
Birth expected in mitochondrial donation for infertility trial
Greek and Spanish researchers have announced that a clinical trial using mitochondrial donation to treat infertility has resulted in a pregnancy...