Professor Eric Turkheimer's new book argues for a re-framing of the nature-nurture debate, questioning both what heritability estimates can tell us and what they mean for our understanding of human nature…
Professor Dusko Ilic remembers his friend and colleague Professor Caroline Ogilvie OBE, whose sharp intellect, generosity and pioneering work in clinical and reproductive genetics touched the lives of patients, families and generations of scientists...
A Phase 2/3 trial assessing a gene therapy for X-linked retinitis pigmentosa (XLRP) shows significant improvements in low-light vision...
A new genome editing method allows long DNA fragments to be integrated into precise positions within the genome of cells...
Sperm from a Danish donor carrying a genetic variant classified as 'likely pathogenic' was used by 39 women in Belgium to conceive 53 children...
A baby taking part in the Generation Study has been identified as carrying a mutation linked to the rare condition adrenoleukodystrophy, prompting his older sibling to also be tested...
An approach based on machine learning may reveal signatures of disease in prenatal tissues based on information obtained from postnatal blood samples...
PGT-A is widely used to assess the chromosome status of IVF embryos, but how accurately can a biopsy of just a handful of cells predict an embryo's genetic makeup? Dr Desislava Staneva explains why interpreting PGT-A results is more complex than it may first appear...
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