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.
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Image by K Hardy via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human embryo at the blastocyst stage (about six days after fertilisation) 'hatching' out of the zona pellucida.
DNA organisation during first hours of embryo development mapped
Several epigenetic pathways have been found to play a role in the spatial organisation of DNA during early embryonic development in mice...
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.
Podcast Review: Experiences with Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis
Rareminds CEO Kym Winter is joined by Mary, who is currently undergoing preimplantation genetic diagnosis, and Dr Sarah Wynn, CEO of Unique, to discuss what the process involves, and the challenges and benefits it can bring...
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.
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.
Gene therapy treats rare form of blindness in infants
A new gene therapy improves sight in children with a rare genetic disease that causes blindness...
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.
Cousin marriages should not be banned
The British Society for Genetic Medicine responds to Conservative MP Richard Holden's proposed bill to ban first-cousin marriage...
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.
Preimplantation Genetic Testing: Barriers to Access
The latest PET event focused on access to and funding for preimplantation genetic testing, specifically in relation to monogenic conditions and chromosomal structural rearrangements...
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.
Book Review: A Fatal Inheritance – How a family misfortune revealed a deadly medical mystery
Dr Dan Jacobson concludes Lawrence Ingrassia's book is: 'an expansive, masterful piece of science communication, which doubles beautifully as memoir and biography of modern oncology'...
Image by Matthew Daniels via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts human cells, showing the stages of cell division.
Rare genetic disease appears to be cured after gene therapy
A novel gene insertion therapy may be able to cure infants of a rare genetic liver disease...
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.
Event Review: BSGM Lunch & Learn – Adoption, fostering and kinship care
This online event was an apt and informative discussion of the complex and varied reasons health records are so important to children and young people in adoption, fostering and kinship care...