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| Why the mitochondria debate shouldn't be left to the popular media |
| 25 June 2012 - by Dr Virginia Bolton |
| Predictably, the publication of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics' report supporting further research into a technique to prevent inheritance of mitochondrial disease prompted a flurry of publicity. Equally predictably, nearly every newspaper - whether broadsheet or tabloid - went for the sensationalist angle and used the 'three-parent IVF' tag in their headline... [Read More] |
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| Mother of first IVF baby dies at 64 |
| 25 June 2012 - by Cait McDonagh |
| Lesley Brown, the first woman to give birth after undergoing IVF treatment, has died aged 64. She made history when her daughter Louise was born in 1978 at Oldham General Hospital... [Read More] |
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| NHS payout for children fathered by nephew sperm donor |
| 25 June 2012 - by Rose Palmer |
| Two children of a lesbian couple are due to receive £70,000 compensation from the NHS after a mistake led to the death of their sperm donor father. The man was also the nephew of one of the women... [Read More] |
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| Clinic offers free IVF treatment to winners of video competition |
| 25 June 2012 - by Jessica Ware |
| The Sher Institute, a network of eight fertility clinics in the USA, has announced the three couples to win an IVF giveaway contest... [Read More] |
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| Controversial publication of bird flu studies reveal virus' potential |
| 25 June 2012 - by Greg Ball |
| Controversial research showing how the H5N1 'bird flu' virus can be altered to make it transmissible between mammals through the air has been published, nine months after it was first presented at a conference.... [Read More] |
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| Eye precursor and tiny liver grown from stem cells |
| 25 June 2012 - by Dr Daniel Grimes |
| Human embryonic stem cells have, for the first time, been used to grow a crucial part of the eye, a paper in Cell Stem Cell reports. It is hoped that in the future transplantation of such tissue could help visually impaired people recover their sight... [Read More] |
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| EU urged to continue funding stem cell research |
| 25 June 2012 - by Antony Blackburn-Starza |
| Six major UK research funding bodies have called for the continued funding of human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research in the EU's programme for research and development... [Read More] |
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| Huntington's disease gene-silencing drug effective in animal studies |
| 25 June 2012 - by Holly Rogers |
| A single dose of an 'antisense' drug has been shown to slow, or even partially reverse, Huntington's disease in animal studies, according to a study published in Neuron.... [Read More] |
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