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Ethical concerns raised over human cells grown in monkey embryos UK experts have called for public discussion and debate about the ethical and regulatory challenges on human-animal chimeras. 15 April, 2021 15:00 US scientists have grown human cells in monkey embryos with the aim to understand more about how cells develop and communicate with each other. Researchers from the Salk Institute in California have produced what is known as monkey-human chimeras, with human stem cells – special cells that have the ability to develop into many different cell types – ...

Dr Julian Koplin BioNews Comment articles written by Dr Julian Koplin: Page 1 of 1 Australia is on the cusp of legalising mitochondrial donation... [Read More] Tel: +44 (0)20 7278 7870 Email: admin@progress.org.uk Limited company registered in England and Wales no 07405980 Registered charity no 1139856 Website initially design by Thunder Progress Educational Trust

Elpida Fragouli BioNews Review articles written by Elpida Fragouli: Page 1 of 1 As a human geneticist I've always been interested in anything DNA-related, whether this is a book, research paper, film, or documentary. I never expected, however, that DNA would be the focus of a semi-documentary/semi-intellectual reality TV show, hosted by Stacey Dooley... [Read More]

FILM: The Business of Egg Freezing – From Bluster to Best Practice This film documents the Progress Educational Trust (PET) event ' The Business of Egg Freezing: From Bluster to Best Practice', produced in partnership with University College London's EGA Institute for Women's Health. The event was also sponsored by the British Fertility Society, CooperSurgical, the London Egg Bank, the University of Cambridge's Reproductive Sociology Research Group, Combined Academic Publishers and Reproduction and Fertility (an journal from the Society for Reproduction and Fertility). If you are interested...

It's the modern dilemma a growing number of us are facing - what to do with your £10k eggs on ice when your biological clock has stopped ticking. Here we meet midlife women faced with destroying their eggs (because they no longer want a baby) Sarah Murray, 49, has 11 eggs that she froze back in 2015 but is 'unlikely' to use She has been left with the 'difficult' decision of what to do with her eggs on ice Sarah spent nearly £10,000 but has an issue with becoming a mother close to 50 Carla Poole, 49, also spent £10,000 freezing some of her eggs when she was 37