Grace Woolston is a Volunteer Writer at BioNews. Grace has a BSc in Biomedical Genetics and is continuing their studies at Newcastle University, where they are currently undertaking an MRes in Epidemiology.
Two gene therapy trials run by Intellia Therapeutics have been paused after a study participant was hospitalised...
Professor Sir John Gurdon, pioneer of developmental biology and Nobel Prize winner, has died aged 92...
Hundreds are set to receive the first-ever treatment licensed across Great Britain for a rare mitochondrial disease...
A blood test has been developed that can rapidly diagnose thousands of rare genetic diseases in babies and children suspected of having a rare disease...
A large-scale genome-wide association study has revealed potential therapeutic targets for osteoarthritis...
The functions of over 20,000 human genes are described in a new scientific database...
A novel gene insertion therapy may be able to cure infants of a rare genetic liver disease...
The identification of a common gene variant found in 70 percent of white women suggests breast cancer metastasis may be a hereditary disorder...
Eight percent of UK adults have the same risk of heart disease due to cumulative polygenic changes as carriers of a single rare mutation, according to a study...
Menopause occurs an average of nine years earlier in women with two copies of a variant of the CCDC201 gene...
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