FDA approves home genetic tests for 10 diseases
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the first genetic test to estimate an individual's risk of disease that can be sold directly to consumers...
An approach to medicine based on grouping patients according to the characteristics of their disease or how they respond to particular treatments (or to prophylaxis). This enables the identification and development of measures that are most effective for particular groups of patients.
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the first genetic test to estimate an individual's risk of disease that can be sold directly to consumers...
Dr Kat Arney leads a fascinating and wide-ranging discussion of genetic testing — from testing for cancer genes to whether your child's DNA can predict their future sporting ability...
Three US experts say public conversation should begin now on the ethical challenges raised by a new fertility technology that could reprogram any human cell into eggs and sperm...
Scientists have discovered a new set of proteins that can block the CRISPR/Cas9 system...
Researchers have developed a stem cell test that could rapidly predict how patients with acute myeloid leukaemia will respond to treatment...
Researchers have identified a gene linked to early-onset Parkinson's disease...
by Lucas Taylor
More than 75 percent of those with a genetic condition, and their family members, support the use of genome-editing technology, a survey has found...
Jewish bioethics may help to broaden the discussion of the ethical concerns that emerge from editing the human genome...
The One Show's Alex Jones explores her own fertility and looks at the emotional and financial costs of IVF, while also examining the technological and medical advances that may help more people become parents in the future...
by Rhys Baker
Personalised Medicine. A promise of medical treatment tailored to the individual. A promise that has been decades in the delivery. But now, as such treatment appears to be within reach, will the dream be dashed by bureaucracy, inertia and funding crises?...
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