Members of the UK public are largely supportive of the use of whole genome sequencing in newborn screening, according to a national public dialogue...
NHS-funded IVF treatment will soon be reinstated in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, four years after suspension of funding...
Genetic data from millions of prenatal blood samples are being used for population research by China, claims Reuters...
The age people have sex for the first time, and become parents for the first time, are partly controlled by their genes, a team at the University of Oxford has shown...
A large-scale study has identified genetic variants strongly associated with regulating body weight...
Our genomes can influence the susceptibility and response to SARS-CoV-2 infection, determining the severity of symptoms...
Rare genetic variants in the GIGYF1 gene that increase an man's risk of developing type 2 diabetes by six-fold, have been identified by researchers at the University of Cambridge...
The World Health Organisation has released new guidelines for the governance of genome editing in humans...
I've followed Sophie Beresiner's award-winning column in the Times, The Mother Project, throughout my PhD, with her pieces providing an intended mother's perspective of surrogacy...
The Institute of Genetics and Cancer at the University of Edinburgh virtually hosted their seventh genetic eye disease conference in June 2021, connecting geneticists, clinicians and researchers from the Medical Reseach Council Human Genetics Unit...
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FILM: Sandy Starr and Simon Wilde discuss whole genome sequencing, newborn screening and public dialogue
by BioNews
A conversation between Sandy Starr (deputy director of the Progress Educational Trust) and Simon Wilde (engagement director at Genomics England) about a new report on whole genome sequencing and newborn screening...
Should we edit human embryos' genomes, and if so then how?
by Dr Dieter Egli
I recently received a thoughtful letter from a college student I do not know – I'll call her Claudia* – who took the time to reach out to me with her perspective on heritable genome editing in embryos...