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Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes CCG to consult on reducing fertility services
Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes CCG to consult on reducing fertility services 4 October 2021 Appeared in BioNews 1115 The Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is to hold a public consultation regarding the provision of fertility treatment in the area. Following the merger of the Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes CCGs to a single entity, various policies are to be aligned across the areas.
Concerns over 'no baby, no fee' programmes
Concerns over 'no baby, no fee' programmes 15 February 2021 Appeared in BioNews 1083 Campaigners have requested increased oversight over 'no baby, no fee' funding programmes offered by IVF clinics.
Book Review: Unravelling the Double Helix
Book Review: Unravelling the Double Helix 19 August 2019 Appeared in BioNews 1011 If you asked me to describe how DNA was discovered, I would probably begin by recounting how Francis Crick and James Watson successfully identified the three-dimensional structure of DNA at the University of Cambridge, in 1953, and end my explanation by discussing the role that Rosalind Franklin played in this momentous scientific breakthrough.
The UK has proposed a shady migrant database and we're shook
Data protection is a hot topic: after the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, an estimated one in 20 Facebook users in Britain deleted their accounts. In the context of the “hostile environment” in the UK, where data is shared between the Home Office and other public bodies, including police forces and schools for immigration enforcement purposes, new data policies and legislation sound like a step in the right direction.
Sweet Harmony: Rave | Today captures the hedonism of rave but none of the substance
Earlier this month, the Saatchi Gallery announced the focus of its next exhibition: rave culture. Billed as the first major exhibition of its kind, with a keen focus on the Second Summer of Love, Sweet Harmony: Rave | Today arrives at a particularly relevant time. Thirty-odd years on and the Tories are in power again, free parties continue to be held and shut down across the UK, and government clampdowns on rave culture still persist.
The Scream by Edvard Munch Saved Me in My Darkest Depression
Edvard Munch, The Scream, 1895. Private Collection, Norway. Photo by Thomas Widerberg This Artwork Changed My Life is a new series that explores the personal, often surprising, emotional influence that works of art can have on us, even when we least expect it. During my final exams for university, at the tail end of my first adult relationship that had ended in a suicide attempt, I changed my Facebook profile picture to The Scream, a painting by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch.
How my quest for privacy in my Bangladeshi family has been a trade-off for affection | gal-dem
illustration by Alice Z Jones South Asian homes are set up to be communal and familial. In Bangladesh, across different income and social demographics, parents and children sharing rooms is commonplace. This may have its roots in poverty and a lack of space and housing, but also has a basis in a different attitude to family space and the individual. Meanwhile, in England, my family lives in different cities, inhabiting not just different rooms but different social landscapes.
My hair is dark and strong, and I am proud
I was around nine or ten, definitely still in primary school when my well-meaning dad told me that my armpit hair had become very visible. So off me and my mum trotted to Boots, where she bought some Veet. The aroma of aloe vera masking depilation chemicals are the first things I associate with hair removal. And that trip to Boots marked the first in a long line of now, mostly abandoned hair removal techniques I’ve tried. My skin is light but my hair is dark and strong.
My hair is dark and strong, and I am proud
I was around nine or ten, definitely still in primary school when my well-meaning dad told me that my armpit hair had become very visible. So off me and my mum trotted to Boots, where she bought some Veet. The aroma of aloe vera masking depilation chemicals are the first things I associate with hair removal. And that trip to Boots marked the first in a long line of now, mostly abandoned hair removal techniques I’ve tried. My skin is light but my hair is dark and strong.
New legislation trades data protection for 'effective immigration control' | gal-dem
New UK legislation being debated in parliament about data protection rights (the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR) includes an exemption for immigration enforcement. This would subject migrants, documented and undocumented, to racial discrimination, and further the culture of divisiveness encouraged by the country’s regressive immigration policy. GDPR is the EU regulation protecting how data, including personal data, can be used.
My Week As a Muslim is flawed on so many levels | gal-dem
In the post 9/11 world, the “Muslim identity” has taken on a new connotation. What was once one of the three Abrahamic religions has become tarnished with stereotypes about terrorism, gender politics and being “anti-west”. The simplification of events thereafter has created fear and hostility towards all Muslims: the 9/11 bombers self-identified as Muslim, and the wars in Iran and Afghanistan that followed soon after radicalised mainly young Muslim men into acts of violence around the world.
The politics of anglicising a name | gal-dem
There are different flavours of Anglicization – an anglicised pronunciation, an anglicised abbreviation or choosing an entirely new name. I’ve tried all, and I have regrets. What’s in a name? And why anglicise one? Born Arunima Haque, it became clear that the first battle would be to get people to attempt to even say my name. They see seven letters, not usually thrown together in English, and they panic.
EPO awards CRISPR patent to European biotech
German-based company MilliporeSigma has announced that the European Patent Office (EPO) intends to approve its CRISPR patent for use on eukaryotic cells. The firm, a subsidiary of pharmaceutical giant Merck KGaA, said the EPO has issued a 'Notice of Intention to Grant' a broad patent for the company's CRISPR technology. 'This is a significant and exciting decision by the EPO.
Older fathers may have less success with IVF
The success of IVF (in vitro fertilisation) in women under the age of 40 may be affected by the age of their male partners, suggests a US study. The chance of having a baby through IVF fell for these women with increasing age in their male partner. 'Our study found an independent effect of male age on the cumulative incidence of live birth,' said Dr Laura Dodge at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School in the USA.
My first dirty picture | gal-dem
I’m lying flat on my bed. My sheets are white, a little grubby, but no more than those of any other twenty-something living in the city, indoctrinated into the cult of “I’m too busy to look after myself properly”. There is a cold light outside, it’s late August and sunny, but the positioning of my room means it’s usually bathed in shadow in the morning. The sun, refracted through my blinds, is casting a pleasingly angular sun-shadow pinstripe down the middle of my chest. I smile and CLICK. It’s done.
Dutch court rules donor families can test fertility doctor's DNA
A court in the Netherlands has ruled that DNA tests can be performed on items belonging to a deceased fertility clinic director accused of using his own sperm for fertility treatments. The Medisch Centrum Bijdorp fertility clinic – run by Dr Jan Karbaat from his house in Barendrecht, near Rotterdam – was closed in 2009 for failing to meet storage standards and paperwork irregularities.
The Losing of a Language
I have so far spent six hours of my brief time here in a car. I am a virtual prisoner here: it is many years too late to protest, to enfranchise myself with the tools I can use so effectively six hours’ time difference to the West. The main tool I lack is language. I lack the ability to engage, whether to enjoy and participate or to rebel. Besides, I’m not sure the will is there; it would be a waste of a revolution, I’ll spend fewer than two weeks here this decade.
Fertility clinic worker's sperm swap uncovered by child's DIY gene test
A couple who used artificial insemination services at a Utah fertility clinic have found out that their daughter, Ashley, is in fact the genetic daughter of a former clinic worker. The couple, known as Paula and Jeff, believed that Jeff's sperm had been used in the treatment and had not requested for donor sperm to be used at any point.
Daddy Yankee's 'Barrio Fino' legitimised the art of reggaetón, inspiring a revolution
Original release date: 3 July, 2004 Label: VI Music / El Cartel Records On his recent single Reggaetón, Colombian urbano star J Balvin paid homage not just to the genre of its title, but to a handful of its pioneers. Among those cited in the track’s tropical throb was Daddy Yankee, the Puerto Rican artist that blazed a new path for reggaetón with his astronomical breakthrough hit Gasolina.
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