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'Heroes deserve to go home': The need for genetics in wartime Ukraine
While volunteering with nonprofit organisation Medical Life Lines Ukraine, which she co-directs, Dr Maria Botcharova visits a genetics lab in Kyiv and highlights the key issues faced there…
Nearly 200 children born from sperm of donor with cancer-causing mutation
Sperm from a donor who was unknowingly carrying a cancer-causing mutation has been used to conceive at least 197 children across Europe...
Image by Matthew Daniels via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts human cells, showing the stages of cell division.
Patients disease-free after base editing gene therapy for aggressive leukaemia
Eleven people with aggressive T-cell leukaemia have now received a 'base editing' therapy, with seven remaining in remission up to three years after treatment...
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.
Cancer DNA detected at low levels with CRISPR-based liquid biopsy
A new method for identifying small amounts of DNA from cancer cells in the blood may offer further opportunities for early cancer detection...
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.
The clinical applicability of polygenic scores in PGT
Following reports that UK patients are seeking PGT-P – a form of preimplantation genetic testing that involves polygenic scores – Professor Angus Clarke discusses problems with polygenic scores in general, and with PGT-P in particular...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
Men's Health Strategy for England includes infertility
The Men's Health Strategy states that in 30 percent of couples experiencing infertility, factors involving the male partner are the primary cause...
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.
Dormant virus may drive bladder cancer development
Infection by a common virus during childhood is associated with the development of bladder cancer later in life...
Image by Sílvia Ferreira, Cristina Lopo and Eileen Gentleman via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a single human stem cell embedded within a porous hydrogel matrix (false colour).
Surprise HIV cure after stem cell transplant: a new piece of the puzzle
A seventh person appears to have been cured of HIV due to a blood stem cell transplant...
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.
UK trial brings together four prostate cancer screening approaches
The first men have been recruited for a screening trial which aims to find a better way to detect prostate cancer...