UK Government to develop global standards and policies to share genomic data
The UK Government has announced a year-long implementation plan that it hopes will position the UK as a global leader in genomic healthcare...
Dr Rachel Montgomery is an Adviser to the Progress Educational Trust (PET), and is a Volunteer Writer at its flagship publication BioNews, having originally joined the publication under the auspices of its writing scheme. Previously she studied for a PhD at the MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, part of University College London (UCL), which was funded by the MRC. Her work made use of a fission yeast model to better understand Batten Disease, a rare neurodegenerative disease that affects children. Previously, she completed an MSc in Prenatal Genetics and Fetal Medicine, also at UCL, and studied Medical Biology at Edinburgh University.
The UK Government has announced a year-long implementation plan that it hopes will position the UK as a global leader in genomic healthcare...
Napping during the day is partly controlled by a person's genetics — and is not simply a behavioural choice...
Molecular changes that give rise to cervical cancer have been identified using novel 'organoid' models...
A gene variant linked to Alzheimer's disease has been shown to increase the risk of developing severe COVID-19 symptoms...
The UK's first fully funded NHS IVF clinic is at risk of closure after it was revealed that the hospital cannot afford a much-needed £10m refurbishment...
New research has suggested that a drug already in use for type 2 diabetes might also help prevent recurrent miscarriages...
A new study has found that children born from assisted reproductive technologies have different epigenetic patterns to those born through natural conception - but that these differences vanish by adulthood...
A couple are suing a US fertility clinic after an IVF mix-up resulted in the woman giving birth to twin boys unrelated to them - or each other...
Men taking steroids and anti-baldness medications to appear more attractive may be inadvertently reducing their fertility, warn two scientists...
DNA tests have confirmed a Dutch doctor fathered 49 children after secretly using his own sperm to impregnate women at his fertility clinic...
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