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 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 Bill Sanderson via the Wellcome Collection, © Wellcome Trust Ltd 1997. Depicts the gyri of the Thinker's brain as a maze of choices in biomedical ethics (based on Auguste Rodin's 'The Thinker').
Ethics at the ready
Ethical preparedness: a very brief intro. Professors Bobbie Farsides and Anneke Lucassen discuss how to be prepared to deal with the ethical issues that modern science delivers...
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.
Podcast Review: The G Word – The need for health equity
With around 90 percent of human genetic samples come from people of European ancestry, this episode of the G Word from Genomics England explored the complex questions surrounding health equity...
Image by Bill Sanderson via the Wellcome Collection, © Wellcome Trust Ltd 1990. Depicts Laocoön and his family (from Greek and Roman mythology) entwined in coils of DNA.
UK's science strategy to focus on genomic surveillance
Officials have launched a science strategy outlining how the UK will prepare for emerging health threats, aiming to cement the UK's position as a 'global science superpower'...
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.
England's action plan aims to improve rare diseases care
England's 2023 Rare Diseases Action Plan has been published, with aims to support and improve the care of rare diseases...
Image by Matthew Daniels via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts human cells, showing the stages of cell division.
Genome editing of embryos supported by UK citizens' jury
A citizens' jury of people with personal experience of hereditary disease has voted in favour of asking the UK government to consider changing the law, to allow for genome editing of human embryos to address serious genetic disorders...
Image by Bill Sanderson via the Wellcome Collection, © Wellcome Trust Ltd 1990. Depicts Laocoön and his family (from Greek and Roman mythology) entwined in coils of DNA.
Book Review: Medical Genetics + Law
This book aims to link medical genetics and the law, and hopes to educate readers in all aspects of genetics that are of current relevance, and to indicate potential problems in the present and in the future. Here is Dr Eleanor Taylor's review of the book...