Present from birth. A congenital condition may or may not have a genetic basis.
A long-term clinical trial of a gene therapy for a rare genetic form of deafness has demonstrated sustained hearing restoration, while a separate gene therapy for the same condition has received approval from the Food and Drug Administration...
Professor Alfonso Martínez Arias, Dr Nicolas Rivron and Dr Naomi Moris set out key recommendations from a foundational framework for research, technological development and regulation in relation to stem-cell-based embryo models...
Individual genes have been shown to produce multiple proteins, providing a potential insight into rare diseases that have previously lacked a clear explanation...
A precision genome editing approach has successfully corrected harmful mutations in mitochondrial DNA, offering new hope for treating currently incurable mitochondrial diseases...
Amy Isabel has become the first UK baby born following a womb transplant...
Researchers have identified a previously unreported population of human stem-like cells capable of regenerating retinal tissue and potentially promoting vision recovery...
Mice with two fathers have been created using genome editing, and have survived into adulthood...
Scientists at the Francis Crick Institute in London have shown the earliest known stage in mammalian heart development...
People born with the aid of IVF or intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) are six times more likely to develop high blood pressure as adolescents, a preliminary study has found...
A large study in Australia has found a link between undescended testes at birth and development of testicular cancer and infertility in later life...
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