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Image by Christoph Bock/Max Planck Institute for Informatics via Wikimedia Commons. Depicts a DNA molecule that is methylated on both strands on the centre cytosine.
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Image by Christoph Bock/Max Planck Institute for Informatics via Wikimedia Commons. Depicts a DNA molecule that is methylated on both strands on the centre cytosine.
Comment
5 June 2017 • 4 minutes read

Autism and smoking during pregnancy - a mitochondrial inheritance

by Professor David Skuse

In recent years, there has been an explosion in the number of children diagnosed with autism. There is seemingly one in every classroom, most of them boys; some are quiet and nerdy, others may be disruptive and aggressive. Most have normal intelligence, a

Image by Bill McConkey via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts sperm swimming towards an egg.
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Image by Bill McConkey via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts sperm swimming towards an egg.
Comment
5 June 2017 • 3 minutes read

Donor-conceived people do benefit from being told about their conception

by Professor Eric Blyth and 3 others

Professor Guido Pennings' provocatively entitled BioNews commentary 'Donor children do not benefit from being told about their conception' purports to highlight the shortcomings of existing research supporting a pro-disclosure agenda and castigates couns

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Image by Peter Artymiuk via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts the shadow of a DNA double helix, on a background that shows the fluorescent banding of the output from a DNA sequencing machine.
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Image by Peter Artymiuk via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts the shadow of a DNA double helix, on a background that shows the fluorescent banding of the sequencing output from an automated DNA sequencing machine.
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13 June 2017 • 2 minutes read

Genome editing used to slow cancer growth

by Annabel Slater

US scientists have delayed cancer cell growth by using genome editing to remove a protein...

Image by Peter Artymiuk via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts the shadow of a DNA double helix, on a background that shows the fluorescent banding of the output from a DNA sequencing machine.
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Image by Peter Artymiuk via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts the shadow of a DNA double helix, on a background that shows the fluorescent banding of the sequencing output from an automated DNA sequencing machine.
News
12 June 2017 • 2 minutes read

FDA gives go-ahead to first cancer drug based on genetics

by Shaoni Bhattacharya

The first cancer drug based on a specific genetic feature has been approved by the US drugs regulator...

Image by Bill Sanderson via the Wellcome Collection, © Wellcome Trust Ltd 1990. Depicts Laocoön and his family (from Greek and Roman mythology) entwined in coils of DNA.
Image by Bill Sanderson via the Wellcome Collection, © Wellcome Trust Ltd 1990. Depicts Laocoön and his family entwined in coils of DNA (based on the figure of Laocoön from Greek and Roman mythology).
News
12 June 2017 • 2 minutes read

UK parents lose appeal to take sick son to US for treatment

by Jen Willows

The UK Court of Appeal has upheld the High Court's decision that an experimental treatment offered by a US doctor will not benefit ill baby Charlie Gard, and could cause significant pain and distress...

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30 May 2017 • 3 minutes read

Sperm in space produce healthy mouse pups on Earth

by Dr Ashley Cartwright

Mouse sperm stored aboard the International Space Station for nine months has been used to produce healthy pups back on Earth...

Image by Peter Artymiuk via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts the shadow of a DNA double helix, on a background that shows the fluorescent banding of the output from a DNA sequencing machine.
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Image by Peter Artymiuk via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts the shadow of a DNA double helix, on a background that shows the fluorescent banding of the sequencing output from an automated DNA sequencing machine.
News
12 June 2017 • 2 minutes read

Forty new genes linked to intelligence in humans

by Annabel Slater

A study of almost 80,000 people has identified 40 new genes linked to intelligence...

Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
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Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
News
12 June 2017 • 2 minutes read

Sperm 'radar' sorts the good from the bad

by Shaoni Bhattacharya

A giant scanner has been successfully used to sort 'good' sperm from 'bad'...

Image by Bill Sanderson via the Wellcome Collection, © Wellcome Trust Ltd 1990. Depicts Laocoön and his family (from Greek and Roman mythology) entwined in coils of DNA.
Image by Bill Sanderson via the Wellcome Collection, © Wellcome Trust Ltd 1990. Depicts Laocoön and his family entwined in coils of DNA (based on the figure of Laocoön from Greek and Roman mythology).
News
12 June 2017 • 2 minutes read

German Parliament passes the Sperm Donor Registry Act

by Dr Lanay Griessner

The German Parliament has passed the Sperm Donor Registry Act, which will allow children born from 2018 onwards to access their donors' information...

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Image by Dr Christina Weis. © Christina Weis
Image by Dr Christina Weis. © Christina Weis
Reviews
12 June 2017 • 4 minutes read

Event Review: Launch of the Centre for Reproduction Research, De Montfort University

by Kriss Fearon

The opening of the The Centre for Reproduction Research at De Montfort University on 24 March 2017 was marked through an afternoon seminar of short lectures by three leading scholars: Emily Jackson, professor of law at London School of Economics, Maureen

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Reviews
13 June 2017 • 4 minutes read

TV Review: Quadruplets and Homeless

by Dr Jane Currie

A moving love story, but a missed opportunity to explore ethical issues in IVF...

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