Will a COVID-19 vaccine change my DNA?
In order to be approved for use in the UK, vaccines must meet the strict standards of safety, quality and effectiveness set out by the independent Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency...
The structure within a eukaryotic cell that contains the vast majority of its genetic information.
In order to be approved for use in the UK, vaccines must meet the strict standards of safety, quality and effectiveness set out by the independent Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency...
Although we have known of the interactions of nature and nurture for decades, the term 'epigenetics' has only recently been taken up by scientists and the wider public to refer to these phenomena...
Researchers have identified a gene that plays a key role in fertility across multiple species and may contribute to our understanding of age-related infertility in women...
Researchers trying to understand what happens in the first moments after fertilisation have discovered that an enzyme previously studied in colon cancer plays a key role...
The third session of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) 2019 annual conference, 'Beyond Regulation: Shining a Light on Fertility Treatment', was chaired by Alastair McLellan, the editor of the Health Service Journal...
by Jen Willows
A new study has shown why stem cell transplants, even derived from the patient's own cells can be rejected...
by Jenny Sharpe
Mitochondria are not as interchangeable as originally thought, with implications for the selection of donors for mitochondrial donation...
Scientists and patient advocates are lobbying US lawmakers to allow mitochondrial donation to be used to help avoid severe mitochondrial disease...
A baby conceived via IVF using genetic information from three people has been born to a mother not affected by mitochondrial disease...
by Jen Willows
A new paper documents three unrelated families where paternal mitochondrial DNA is present in offspring...
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