The UK has offered to use its world-leading expertise in genomics to aid countries that lack the resources to identify evolving variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus...
Researchers comparing different methods of genome editing have found that in some contexts, TALENs work more efficiently than CRISPR/Cas9...
The entire repair cycle of DNA replication has been identified for the first time...
The pathway that allows blood stem cells to hibernate, and therefore repeatedly renew themselves, has been revealed...
A new research paper warns that COVID-19 can affect men's sperm, but it may not be that simple…
Professor Lewis Wolpert, a highly accomplished developmental biologist, science communicator and humanist, sadly died on 28 January 2021...
Jnetics and Chana shared their first joint event, with leading experts speaking about Jewish genetic disorder carrier screening, fertility advice and the reproductive options available to ensure genetic disorders are not passed onto future children...
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Will a COVID-19 vaccine change my DNA?
by Professor Frances Flinter
In order to be approved for use in the UK, vaccines must meet the strict standards of safety, quality and effectiveness set out by the independent Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency...
Class action lawsuit: has Monash IVF breached its legal duty of care?
by Dr Patrick Foong
A law firm has filed a class action against Monash IVF, one of Australia's largest IVF clinics, following allegations that the fertility clinic may have destroyed healthy embryos through a defective non-invasive genetic screening test...
FILM: Known Unknowns — The Follow-Up Interviews
by BioNews
In this series of short films, speakers from last years Progress Educational Trust event 'Known Unknowns: The Pros, Cons and Consequences of Known Donation' answer follow-up questions about 'known donor' arrangements in sperm and egg donation...