Researchers have identified a gene variant that increases the risk of depression, while elsewhere the largest genetic study testing for risk factors gets underway...
Children with autism spectrum disorder who received infusions of their own stem cells from banked umbilical cord blood as part of a clinical trial have no apparent lasting adverse effects after one year...
A gene has been linked to quality of sleep...
Researchers in the US have identified a gene mutation that causes a person's internal body clock to run slowly, leading to delayed sleep and difficulty in waking early...
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the first genetic test to estimate an individual's risk of disease that can be sold directly to consumers...
Researchers in Canada have found that age-related infertility may be due to older eggs dividing poorly, leading to errors in chromosome number...
A decision granting custody of a baby to a surrogate has been upheld by the Court of Appeal...
The contradictions of the burgeoning egg freezing industry are lucidly demonstrated out in The Great Egg Freeze, a radio documentary by journalist Fi Glover...
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The media, synthetic biology and CRISPR - fears vs. reality
by Seán Byrne
A recent Wall Street Journal article, 'DIY Gene Editing: Fast, Cheap – and Worrisome', describes the Saturday afternoon of teenager, Kian Sadeghi, as he learns to use CRISPR/Cas9 at the Genspace Community Lab in Brooklyn, New York. Like many news ar