Multigene testing for all women diagnosed with breast cancer would save thousands of lives each year in the UK and USA, suggests new research...
A study led by the Taiwan University examining the interaction between individuals' genetics and 18 types of exercise found that different kinds of exercise could attenuate the genetic effects that contribute to obesity...
In 'Diary of a Surrogate', an episode of the Radio 4 programme The Untold, Linder Wilkinson speaks about what becoming a surrogate mother meant for her. She tells the story of why — after giving birth to her first surrogate child — she decided to emba
The number of new parents paying to bank their baby's umbilical cord blood for future use in stem cell therapies or transplantation in case of illness has increased by 59 percent in the space of four years in the UK...
An 80-year-old woman from Oxford — Janet Osborne — has undergone the world's first gene therapy operation to target the root cause of age-related macular degeneration...
A drug to treat ovarian cancer has shown promising results in a clinical trial, delaying signs of relapse and reducing chances of death. The drug olaparib, a PARP inhibitor, was used in patients with BRCA-mutated advanced ovarian cancer...
Of the human genome's 20,000 or so genes, about 2000 have received almost all the attention of biomedical researchers...
For their large body size, elephants should get cancer a lot more often than they do — now a new study has found out why...
Human sperm possess a 'memory' of early life trauma that can be transmitted to offspring through changes in microRNA levels, a new study has shown for the first time...
A lesbian couple in Italy has been asked to declare that their baby was naturally conceived in order to register him at the public records office...
