Podcast Review: Babbage – The unfinished genomics revolution
This podcast episode is a timely look back at the Human Genome Project, including interviews with the UK's top geneticists...
This podcast episode is a timely look back at the Human Genome Project, including interviews with the UK's top geneticists...
Removing additional chromosomes, or arms of chromosomes, can stop cancer cells' ability to form tumours...
by Hannah Flynn
Cells in early human embryos are unable to effectively repair the double-stranded DNA breaks made during CRISPR/Cas9-based genome editing...
by Farah Alam
Remission has been seen in patients with treatment-resistant leukaemia in the world's first phase 1 clinical trial for 'base-editing' therapy...
by Jake Knox
A Texas court has awarded $100 million more damages to a company whose patents for non-invasive prenatal testing technology were infringed by a competitor...
The birth of the first UK child(ren) with donated mitochondria has been confirmed by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority...
How the X shape of chromosomes is formed during cell division has been discovered at a molecular and atomic level...
by Farah Alam
Cancer cells that undergo genome doubling affect how DNA is packaged, which may promote cancer development...
A technique commonly used to amplify minute quantities of DNA to allow genetic testing of early human embryos has been shown to be error-prone. Potentially harmful unintended mutations in genome-edited embryos were also found...
by Ahmed Amer
This PET event explored pregnancy loss in the context of fertility treatment...
BioNews, published by the Progress Educational Trust (PET), provides news and comment on genetics, assisted conception, embryo/stem cell research and related areas.