Couples would donate embryos to science
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A majority of couples with stored embryos from fertility treatments say they would be willing to donate unused embryos for stem cell research, says a doctor who surveyed patients.
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Women may be able to have unfertilised eggs routinely frozen during fertility treatment rather than just embryos after research.
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Leaders of embryonic stem-cell banks in the United States and the United Kingdom pledge to work together to promote research, create standards and distribute each other's cells. By the Associated Press.
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Making human-animal embryos for scientific experiments should be allowed because of the benefits to science and medicine, British experts said in a report released for Sunday.
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A procedure that encourages an egg to begin embryo development without being fertilized could suggest a new way to produce stem cells, at least for certain patients.
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Leading scientists have urged peers not to block the use of human-animal hybrid embryos for research.
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British scientists say they have created human embryos containing DNA from two women and a man in a procedure that researchers hope might be used one day to produce embryos free of inherited diseases.
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A couple's chances of receiving IVF treatment on the NHS are down to a &quot;postcode lottery&quot;, according to a report.
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Regulators are due to make a decision on whether to allow human-animal embryos to be used for research in the UK.
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A way of 'tricking' eggs to divide without being fertilised may aid stem cell and IVF research, say scientists.
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The first request by British scientists to clone human embryos has been granted by experts.
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Adding a key chemical to the fluid in which IVF embryos grow could help prevent developmental problems in babies, scientists suggest.
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In a bid to sidestep the ethical debate over the use of human embryos in medical research, scientists have developed a way to derive viable stem cell lines without harming the embryo.
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If verified, the research could shake up the debate over human embryo research that has divided the country for the past six years.
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A watchdog seeks public opinion on women donating their eggs for scientific research.
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About 60 percent of people with frozen embryos stored at U.S. fertility clinics would be willing to donate them for use in human stem cell research, according to a survey released on Wednesday.
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After doctors performed a kind of transplant surgery on mothersâ eggs, 20 babies were born to women for whom IVF had not worked.