Event Review: Testing Embryos – How far should we go?
The first in a series of discussions on human reproduction from the Hastings Centre for Bioethics asks today's most pressing questions about embryo selection…
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Image by Matthew Daniels via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts human cells, showing the stages of cell division.
Image by Matthew Daniels via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts human cells, showing the stages of cell division.
Gene therapy fast-tracked for liver disorder in babies
A novel gene insertion therapy to treat a rare liver disorder in newborns has received regulatory designations in the USA and the UK...
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.
Non-coding gene discovered to be a cause of blindness
New genetic causes of inherited blindness have been discovered that may offer answers to families with unexplained vision loss...
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 boy with spinal muscular atrophy walks after gene therapy
A five-year-old boy who was one of the first in the UK to receive gene therapy for spinal muscular atrophy is now able to walk. Meanwhile, pop singer Jesy Nelson has called for the condition to be added to the newborn screening programme...
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.
Expanded Carrier Screening: How Is It Used? What Are the Ethical Implications?
The first session of 'What Does Genomics Mean for Fertility Treatment?' – the 2025 Annual Conference of PET – explored the growing use of expanded carrier screening...
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.
Polygenic Risk, Polygenic Scores, Polygenic Indices: What Are They? What Should Be Done with Them?
The fourth session of 'What Does Genomics Mean for Fertility Treatment?' – the 2025 Annual Conference of PET – explored tensions between new genetic testing approaches, established regulation and ethics...
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.
Donor Conception and Genomics: Sperm, Eggs, Embryos, Mitochondria
The fifth session of 'What Does Genomics Mean for Fertility Treatment?' – the 2025 Annual Conference of PET – brought together clinical, scientific and ethical perspectives on the relationship between genomics and donor conception...
'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...