A transplant of genome-edited stem cells designed to protect healthy donor cells from cancer therapy has shown promise in patients with aggressive blood cancers...
Endocrine disorder 'polycystic ovary syndrome' has been renamed 'polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome' to better reflect the clinical features of the condition...
A simplified stem-cell-based embryo model of the early human embryo has revealed a key mechanism required for blastocyst cavity formation...
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has opened a UK-wide consultation on proposed changes to the legal definition of gene therapy medicinal products...
The High Court of England and Wales approved the Marquess of Bath's son, who was born via surrogacy, as a potential beneficiary of the family trusts...
Having seen The Surrogate Mother by Freida McFadden appear on bestseller lists recently, Jen Willows decided to read it, commenting that while the premise draws on familiar psychological thriller tropes, the execution often struggles to maintain plausibility as the story develops...
Dr Beatrice Costa explores Lancaster University's public lecture Sex, Science and Stem Cells, examining how advances in stem cell research, IVG and embryo models are reshaping the future of human reproduction and raising important ethical and policy questions...
Dr Jeremy Koenig, host of the DNA of Things podcast, speaks with Professor Insoo Hyun about how bioethics plays out in the real world, where the most logical argument doesn't always win...
This Queer Family Podcast episode on lesbian IVF journeys, highlights both the emotional intensity of assisted reproduction and the broader social and ethical questions it raises...
What if personalised medicine – designed to be more precise – actually ends up being less fair, asks Dr Tsveti Stoilova...
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by Dr Robin Hadley
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by Sarah Norcross
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by Professor Lucy Frith
Lucy Frith, professor of bioethics and health research at the University of Manchester and lead of the ConnecteDNA project, discusses the new information leaflets they have produced designed to help donors, donor-conceived people and families navigate the growing impact of online DNA testing on donor conception...
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by Miruna Dragulin
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