A report from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows that the number of multiple births among women over 45 has increased by 23 percent in the past year. The increase is thought to be in part due to more older women using IVF treatment to conceive...
Researchers have developed a non-surgical test that could be used to tell whether men with zero sperm counts could father children via IVF...
A gene variant has been discovered and linked to an increased risk of severe childhood asthma. Researchers suggest that a faulty version of the gene CDHR3 may even be the direct cause of the disease in some children...
Men who are unemployed for more than two years show genetic ageing at an accelerated rate...
A single gene linked to morbid obesity in a family in Israel also causes obesity and diabetes when deleted in mice...
A strategy to improve diagnosis, research, and treatment of rare diseases has been launched by the UK Government...
Fred Sanger, renowned biochemist, has died aged 95. Having pioneered seminal techniques for the understanding of both proteins and DNA, Dr Sanger is widely hailed as one of the most influential scientists of recent years...
Male mice are able to reproduce healthy offspring with only two Y-chromosome genes, researchers at the University of Hawaii have discovered...
In just 200 pages, Professor Lewis Wolpert addresses the whole of cell biology: from the discovery of cells, through how stem cells self-replicate, to how cells may have evolved in the first place...
The 2013 Schrödinger Lecture at Imperial College London was delivered by Dr Elizabeth Blackburn, an Australian-American biologist based in California...
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Screening dilemmas: disability, disease or something in-between?
by Professor Felicity Boardman
I was struck by a recent article that pushed to free Down's syndrome from inappropriate, negative language - that of 'disease', of 'risk' and of 'defect'...
Still One at a Time
by Professor Lisa Jardine
In stark contrast to reports in the media, the need to reduce the incidence of multiple births following IVF remains, and the policy still stands...