Prime editing – a type of genome editing – has been used to alter DNA directly inside a person's body for the first time...
Children conceived through fertility treatment had higher rates of childhood cancer than those conceived naturally, although the absolute risk remains low, new research suggests...
A newly devised benchmark provides a measure of how closely different human stem-cell-based embryo models resemble early natural human embryos...
New research using mice may reveal how smoking affects reproductive health via different mechanisms in men and women...
Participants in a national engagement programme have expressed support for using genomics to help prevent illness and personalise healthcare, while emphasising that its wider use must be underpinned by trust, fairness and transparency...
A genetic variant linked to Alzheimer's disease impairs the production of the fatty layer that insulates neurons by disrupting an important signalling pathway...
A genome editing technique has corrected a disease-causing mutation in blood stem cells taken from a patient with a rare and severe immune disorder...
The High Court of Australia has ruled that a prisoner can apply to freeze her eggs while in custody, because egg freezing does not qualify as 'assisted reproductive technology'...
Researchers have turned an 80-year-old's blood precursor cells into neural stem cells, resetting the cells' 'biological age' in the process...
Two research teams have used different DNA-recording technologies to trace cell lineages in developing mouse embryos...
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