The US administration wants to allow Customs and Border Protection to collect genetic material from undocumented immigrants in government custody, according to a leaked draft policy...
Human mini-brains grown from stem cells in the lab, have shown electrical activity on a par with that of premature, newborn baby brains...
Scientists have developed a genome editing method that could one day be used to treat conditions such as progeria and Huntington’s disease...
A gene variant has been discovered that allows carriers to function normally on less sleep than other people...
The largest study to date into the genetic basis of sexuality has found that there is no single gene associated with same-sex sexual behaviour...
Companies harnessing genome-editing technology have announced their own declaration on the use of the technology...
In his new book, Professor Dov Fox shines a light on the harms that are done to fertility patients, and the lack of protection which the law in the USA affords them...
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Human-animal chimeras: should other countries follow Japan's lead?
by Dr Patrick Foong
Under the new Japanese guidelines, a Japanese scientist, Dr Hiromitsu Nakauchi, is the first to receive government approval to produce animal embryos that have human cells and transplant them into surrogate animals...