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Scientist makes case to edit embryos By James Gallagher Health editor, BBC News website A scientist has been making her case to be the first in the UK to be allowed to genetically modify human embryos. Dr Kathy Niakan said the experiments would provide a deeper understanding of the earliest moments of human life and could reduce miscarriages. The regulator, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), will consider her application on Thursday. If Dr Niakan is given approval then the first such embryos could be created by the summer. Every person has gone through a remarkable transformation from a single fertilised egg into a fully fledged human being made of trillions of precisely organised cells. Exactly how this takes place is a mystery. Dr Niakan, who has spent a decade researching human development, is trying to understand the first seven days. During this time we go from a fertilised egg to a structure called a blastocyst, containing 200-300 cells. But even at

Gw en Stefani Is Returning to ‘The Voice’ to Mentor Boyfriend Blake Shelton’s Singers Blake Shelton  popped the question to  Gwen Stefani . The country singer, 39, proposed that his girlfriend of two months, 46, serve as mentor to his team on the upcoming season 10 of NBC’s  The Voice , a source reveals in the new issue of  Us Weekly . ( Christina Aguilera  is returning to fill Stefani’s coach chair when the hit singing competition returns February 29 at 8 p.m.) PHOTOS: Celebrity Couples and How They First Met The hunky country crooner hinted as season 9 was drawing to a close in December that he’d like to keep his lady on the set. “I don’t want Gwen to not be on the show. Why can’t we have a fifth coach?”  he told  Extra  at the time. But when the lovebirds aren’t working together, they’re jet-setting around the country. Just two days before filming in Los Angeles January 11, Stefani was Shelton’s date to the nuptials of his hairstylist,  Amanda Craig , at the Loveless B

Khloe Kardashian Details Lamar Odom's 'Disgusting' Cheating in No-Holds-Barred Howard Stern Interview She's an open book.  Khloé Kardashian  had a no-holds-barred discussion with  Howard Stern  on Wednesday, January 13, in which she detailed  Lamar Odom 's "disgusting" cheating habits during their four-year marriage.  "Lamar was so great at making me feel like I was the only one and I was this princess, so I never speculated about his cheating," the  Kocktails With Khloé host, 31, recalled of their relationship. "He was so good. Nothing was on his cellphones." In fact, the texts with other women were concealed by somebody close to the former NBA player. "He had an assistant, so they were all on his assistant's phone. He was really crafty," Kardashian said of Odom's communications. "Oh, it's disgusting! All of these rumors were coming out in the weeklies … and I was like, 'Where there's smo

Steven Avery's Ex-Fiancee Jodi Stachowski Speaks Out: 'He's Not Innocent' There's Jodi!  Steven Avery 's former fiancée  Jodi Stachowski , who is featured in Netflix's  Making a Murderer,  speaks out in an exclusive new interview for  HLN's  Nancy Grace , days after the show's namesake host raised questions about the series during the Television Critics Association's winter panel. Stachowski reached out to  Nancy Grace 's producer,  Natisha Lance , to share her side of the story. Lance previewed the pre-taped interview on HLN's morning program on Wednesday, January 13. In the preview, the two sit down face to face and discuss why Stachowski is suddenly choosing to speak out now. "It's been 10 years," Lance notes to her subject. "Why are you talking to me? What do you want people to know?"Jodi Stachowski "The truth," Stachowski replies. "What a monster he is, and he's not innocent.&