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| Coronavirus testing support offered by the Francis Crick Institute |
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| 23 March 2020 - by Alegria Vaz Mouyal |
| More than 300 scientists at the Francis Crick Institute in London have volunteered their services to carry out coronavirus tests in their labs... [Read More] |
| CRISPR can now target RNA - including coronavirus genome |
| 23 March 2020 - by Dr Jay Stone |
| A new CRISPR-based technology can target RNA in human cells, including the RNA-based genome of the coronavirus... [Read More] |
| Egg enzyme unpacks paternal genome |
| 23 March 2020 - by Eleanor Taylor |
| Researchers trying to understand what happens in the first moments after fertilisation have discovered that an enzyme previously studied in colon cancer plays a key role... [Read More] |
| FILM: Frozen Fertility - The Challenges of Storing Eggs, Sperm and Embryos (Part 3) |
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| 27 March 2020 - by BioNews |
| The third in a series of films documenting a recent Progress Educational Trust/Scottish Government event on medical, ethical, legal, social and policy aspects of cryopreservation, featuring a presentation by patient Sharon Jones... [Read More] |
| An open letter to fertility patients |
| 23 March 2020 - by Sally Cheshire CBE |
| As Chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology, the regulator responsible for overseeing all UK fertility clinics, I wanted to write an open letter to all of you who are currently undergoing or were planning fertility treatment at this difficult time... [Read More] |
| FILM: What fertility patients need to know about COVID-19 |
| 23 March 2020 - by Dr Jane Stewart |
| In this short video, Dr Jane Stewart – chair of the British Fertility Society – explains how the fertility sector is responding to the current coronavirus pandemic... [Read More] |
| Podcast Review: Episode 1: The Gene Gap - What does it mean to be human? |
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| 23 March 2020 - by Alegria Vaz Mouyal |
| Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a parent of a child with Down's syndrome?... [Read More] |
| Film Review: Childless in the world's most fertile country (BBC Africa Eye) |
| 16 March 2020 - by Ahmed Amer |
| The impact infertility has on the quality of life is significant... [Read More] |
| I:DNA Review |
| 16 March 2020 - by Amarpreet Kaur |
| I:DNA is an artistic installation created from research data collated by Dr Felicity Boardman from the University of Warwick in collaboration with Santé Theatre and Media Productions... [Read More] |
