Rules relaxed around reciprocal IVF and gamete donors with HIV
New UK regulations allow patients with non-transmissible HIV to donate eggs and sperm to known recipients and reduce screening requirements for same-sex female couples...
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New UK regulations allow patients with non-transmissible HIV to donate eggs and sperm to known recipients and reduce screening requirements for same-sex female couples...
The transposon LINE1 is an essential regulator in early human development, researchers found...
Netflix is being sued in federal court over the disclosure of three women's donor-conceived status in the 2022 documentary 'Our Father'...
Remnants of ancient viral DNA in the human genome are associated with two neurodegenerative diseases: multiple sclerosis and motor neurone disease...
Artificial intelligence methods have produced simulated DNA to determine gene expression, a new study has revealed...
Manuela Perrotta's book unveils regulatory inadequacies that expose patients to abuse by the profit-driven medical industry...
Hear Louise Brown, the world's first IVF baby, in conversation with Elizabeth Carr, the 14th IVF baby and first US IVF birth...
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This podcast from Bloomberg’s Prognosis shines a light on the emotions that are brought up when a deeply intimate corner of medicine collides with business…
A work in progress stand-up hour that was a quintessential Edinburgh Fringe Festival experience…
Michaela Chen reviews a 'a tale as old as industrialism', about the fight families brought to find out more about their lost embryos and information about their sperm donors…
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Whole Genome Sequencing at Birth: Implementing the Generation Study
by Olivia Goff
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by Amanda Pichini
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