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3 days ago | progress.org.uk | Joanne Delange

Molecular signals that give identity to cells in the early developing brain have been identified. Researchers at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut, used brain organoids – 3D tissues created from human stem cells – to investigate signalling molecules called morphogens, which are known to govern early brain development. They discovered that how cells react to these morphogens varies not only between stem cells from different donors but also between cells from the same individual.

3 days ago | progress.org.uk | Joanne Delange

Reviewing for BioNews is never boring or predictable; a children's book on IVF conception (see BioNews 1202) or a fly-on-the-wall documentary about a self-promoting C-lister (see BioNews 1280) is here seamlessly followed by a violent crime family's power struggles in the wake of a disastrous cocaine deal, set in Liverpool and the Costa del Sol. But...

1 week ago | progress.org.uk | Joanne Delange

Elusive Mommyhood: An Investigative Reporter's Personal Journey into IVF and SurrogacyBy Ginanne BrownellPublished by Mission Point PressISBN-10: 1965278116, ISBN-13: 978-1965278116Buy this book from Amazon UKIt starts with a ham and cheese panini. Ginanne Brownell opens her book in a hospital cafeteria, eating a sandwich, waiting for her children to be born. It's a mundane moment in an otherwise very extraordinary story.

1 week ago | progress.org.uk | Joanne Delange

A large-scale genome-wide association study (GWAS) has revealed potential therapeutic targets for osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis, which is caused by the breakdown of cartilage in joints, is the third most rapidly growing health condition causing disability and is predicted to affect one billion people worldwide by 2050.

1 week ago | progress.org.uk | Joanne Delange

A mystery infection, that affected a woman for five years, was identified using a novel genomic test that led to targeted treatment and full recovery of the patient. Dr Ellie Irwin was diagnosed with right eye inflammation in 2019, yet no treatment improved her condition and her symptoms worsened.