A gene that could play a key role in depression has been identified...
International experts are calling for global action on unproven and potentially dangerous stem cell therapies and their misleading marketing to the public...
Researchers have revealed the structure and action of a new type of 'molecular scissors' known as Cpf1, which may improve CRISPR genome editing.
A revolutionary vaccine uses the patient’s own immune response to target tumour cells and could be the first step in bespoke, precision medicine.
A same-sex French couple have won a partial victory in their fight to be recognised as the legal parents of their child, who was born via surrogate in the US...
The Chief Medical Officer of England's annual report has recommended that personalised medicine approaches be adopted widely within the NHS.
Female cancer survivors are 38 per cent less likely to become pregnant compared with women in the general population, according to a study presented at the annual European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology conference in Geneva...
The chances were always slim that great art would be born of a multi-partner stakeholder engagement impact initiative, and children's picture book Avery does not beat those odds...
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What next for genomics? Providing answers, changing lives, transforming the NHS
by Dr Rachel Montgomery
A packed public event, produced by the Progress Educational Trust in partnership with Genomics England, saw the Chief Medical Officer for England launch her report 'Generation Genome'...
ABC v St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust: an arguable duty to disclose familial genetic risks
by Victoria Chico
In ABC v St Georges NHS Trust, the daughter of a man with Huntington's disease sued the UK hospital caring for her father, claiming that they had a duty of care to share the father's diagnosis with her, even against his wishes...