For decades, scientists viewed the genome of a newly fertilised egg as a structural 'blank slate' – a disordered tangle of ...

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For years, male fertility has been seen as something that lasts forever. Many people believe that men can father children at any age without any issues. While it is true that men do not experience a ...

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For many years, researchers believed that the DNA inside a newly fertilized egg began as a structural ‘blank slate’ – a loose ...

A researcher's keen eye and spirit of curiosity led to the discovery of a new method for cell engineering—a finding that opens doors to more sustainable sources for everything from fuel to vitamin ...

When I joined the police in the 80s, most criminal investigations were solved by witness testimony or catching the offender in the act, ...

For those of us who weren't paying attention, over the last few years, scientists around the world have been one-upping each ...

She started out as a junior NHS doctor working in a busy hospital in South Wales before moving into academia.

Researchers at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) and Imperial College London have shown for the first time that, before they can start developing into egg and sperm cells, the embryonic ...