Genes affect weight gain from fatty diets
Genes play a role in weight gain resulting from diets high in fat and sugar content, say scientists...
Genes play a role in weight gain resulting from diets high in fat and sugar content, say scientists...
A British Columbia court has ruled that donor-conceived people do not have a constitutional right to know their biological origins and has reversed an earlier decision that would have effectively removed donor anonymity in the province....
The New Jersey Supreme Court has failed to reach a majority verdict on whether a law that requires women to adopt a child born through surrogacy arrangements using donated eggs, to be considered the child's legal mother, discriminates against women affected by infertility....
A male couple in the UK has been awarded legal parenthood over twins born through an Indian surrogacy arrangement without the consent of the mother....
Two women in Sweden received uterus transplants from their mothers, with hopes it will allow them to conceive children of their own...
A US federal court has ruled that a stem cell product is classified as a 'drug', falling under the jurisdiction of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The ruling allows the FDA to regulate stem cell therapy in the USA and could open clinics that offer stem cell treatments open to federal liability...
A Californian woman is suing the US Food and Drug Administration over its sperm donation policy...
The University of Massachusetts (UMass) Stem Cell Bank, opened in response to restrictions on the funding of human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research in the USA, will close after just four years in existence when it runs out of public funding later this year....
Hungary's Medical Research Council has begun investigations into a company that provided a politician with a certificate characterising his 'racial purity'...
A rewritable memory system using short sections of DNA to hold data in bacterial cells has been developed by synthetic biologists. Dr Drew Endy and his team at Stanford University in California produced the system after three years of work and 750 designs...
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