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Reactive Reports Issue 64 David Bradley	Stem to Sperm New research shows that stem cells from human bone marrow can be converted into early-stage sperm. The discovery could lead to novel fertility treatments in the long-term.
Chemistry World November 21, 2007 John Bonner	Female Reproductive System Can 'Sense' Sperm Female pigs detect when a boar's sperm arrives in their oviducts and trigger the release of proteins that help in fertilization. Corresponding proteins in humans could potentially be used to increase success in vitro fertilization.
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Chemistry World December 18, 2012 Jennifer Newton	Technique to measure chemotherapy effectiveness A technique to measure how effective chemotherapy is by studying the physical changes that occur in human cells has been developed by US scientists.
Chemistry World January 6, 2014 Charlotte Still	Stress-free sperm sexing A microbridge sensor developed by Marco Mauro and his team at Novaetech, Napoli, in collaboration with the Italian Experimental Institute, Lazarro Spallanzani in Cremona, is a non-invasive alternative for sorting live sperm cells.
AskMen.com	Synthetic Sperm: Not Really Scientists reported they had produced the sperm in a laboratory that could one day help infertile men father children. Critics say otherwise.
Chemistry World October 19, 2009 Simon Hadlington	DNA stretching mystery solved A detailed understanding of the elastic properties of DNA can give scientists key insights into interactions of DNA and the proteins that carry out these manipulations.
Salon.com January 31, 2001 Theresa Pinto Sherer	Can two men make a baby? Researchers say it's possible, but lawmakers must pave the way...
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Popular Mechanics January 2010 Amber Angelle	How to Create a Designer Baby Women undergoing in vitro fertilization could one day choose to have a baby boy with perfect vision, an aptitude for sports and a virtual lock on avoiding colon cancer.
AskMen.com	Sperm Quality A new study by the Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine links sperm quality to age for the very first time. Sperm quality might decline as men get older, suggesting that the male biological clock is a very real thing.
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Reactive Reports Issue 49 David Bradley	Fertility Threat Acquittal for PCBs Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), commonly found in dielectric fluids for electrical components, may damage sperm, but do not appear to have dramatic effects on human fertility.
Chemistry World July 15, 2008	Raman Reveals DNA in Action Researchers at the University of Strathclyde, UK, have been able to use Raman spectroscopy to observe strands of DNA pairing up and falling apart by attaching them to silver nanoparticles.
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HHMI Bulletin Feb 2011	DNA Curtains How proteins behave in such a crash test gives scientists data about their structural integrity, how they attach to DNA, and how they behave in a cell.
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Chemistry World October 1, 2014 Michael Gross	Viruses melt 'glassy' DNA US Researchers have identified the factors that enable viral DNA to turn from solid to liquid, which allows them to infect host cells. They say the process could become a target for new antiviral therapies.
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Chemistry World February 4, 2011 Holly Sheahan	Crime scene DNA testing on the move A microfluidic chip that can come up with a DNA profile in less than three hours has been designed by US scientists for use at crime scenes.
Chemistry World July 16, 2009 Lewis Brindley	Sound waves speed up sexual assault testing Separating the male and female components of sexual assault evidence using sound waves could vastly cut the time it takes to identify suspects, researchers in the US and Sweden report.
Chemistry World October 17, 2011 Hayley Birch	Quickly sorting cells using DNA A new magnetic cell sorting technique uses principles borrowed from DNA nanodevices. The approach could help scientists rapidly separate different types of cells from complex mixtures.
Chemistry World February 6, 2008 Simon Hadlington	Better Detection of DNA Synthesis Researchers in the US have developed a new way to detect DNA synthesis in living cells by using click chemistry -- the concept of reacting together two 'high energy' molecules that 'click' together efficiently under mild conditions.
BusinessWeek February 27, 2006 Catherine Arnst	And Baby Makes...A Market "The Baby Business: How Money, Science, and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception" is a valuable, thought-provoking look at the baby-making business.
Chemistry World September 2, 2009 Phillip Broadwith	Shining a light on DNA-binding drugs in living cells German researchers have used standard circular dichroism spectroscopy to probe interactions between drug molecules and DNA within living cells.
Chemistry World September 17, 2012 Ian Le Guillou	Raising the curtain on single-stranded DNA Scientists have created microfluidic devices containing single-stranded DNA 'curtains' for the first time, allowing scientists to study its interactions with proteins in real time.
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Chemistry World January 30, 2014 Anthony King	Unnatural DNA links click for faster synthesis Human cells can still read strands of DNA correctly if they are stitched together using linkers not found in nature, a new study shows.
Chemistry World October 14, 2011 James Mitchell Crow	Twist in the tale to improve gene therapy New insights into the physical properties of different forms of DNA could help to improve gene therapy, chemists in Spain and India say.
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Chemistry World May 7, 2014 Emma Stoye	Bacterium survives unnatural DNA transplant The first organism that can grow and replicate with an unnatural base pair in its DNA -- giving the cell six nucleotides instead of the usual four -- has been created by scientists in the US.
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Chemistry World February 17, 2014 Emma Stoye	Cell-powered robots swim like sperm Scientists in the US have combined a synthetic polymer with living heart cells to make a tiny robot that swims by undulating its tail, in a similar way to sperm.
Technology Research News May 5, 2004 Kimberly Patch	DNA Bot Targets Cancer Researchers from Israel have constructed a molecular-size computer that is programmed to find signs of cancer cells, and when they are present, dispense DNA molecules designed to eradicate those cells.
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