A new epigenomic blood test may distinguish between cancerous and benign ovarian tumours with greater accuracy than current tests...
Researchers have found that counselling before or after taking a genetic test to assess the risk of developing ovarian or breast cancer does not reduce distress, anxiety or depression...
Some genetic testing comes with some risk that it will make it difficult for an individual to access some forms of insurance in the UK. Here Sophie Peet asks how regulation of this should be changed to keep pace with changes in genomics and our understanding of discrimination…
Removing additional chromosomes, or arms of chromosomes, can stop cancer cells' ability to form tumours...
An 80 percent ovarian cancer survival rate in mice has been achieved using an RNA-based drug to silence the expression of a protein crucial to cancer cell division...
Rosalind Franklin's contribution to the discovery of the structure of DNA was comparable to that of James Watson and Francis Crick, according to an unpublished news article and overlooked letter...
One percent of people with three grandparents from Orkney, Scotland, carry a gene variant known to increase the risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer...
Professor Daniel Brison recalls the life and work of Professor Brian Lieberman, who founded the world's first publicly-funded IVF unit in Manchester in 1982...
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