Genetic screening in most couples reveals just five percent of the genetic risk of their child developing a severe neurodevelopmental disorder...
To celebrate Gregor Mendel's 200th birthday, PET and Genomics England held an event reflecting on what science and medicine have inherited from Mendel and what the future holds regarding our understanding and treatment of genetic disorders in the era of whole genome sequencing...
Questions submitted by participants in a recent Progress Educational Trust event are answered by the body that oversees newborn screening in the UK...
New genes have been linked to a rare genetic condition that causes hearing loss in women and men, and early menopause and infertility in women...
'People think if we do a genetic test, we can look for everything and if it comes back as a normal test, then everything will be healthy', says Jill Fischer...
A Harvard University geneticist is developing a dating app that compares a person's DNA and removes matches that would result in passing genetic diseases to their children...
A woman has taken a sperm bank to court after giving birth to a child with dwarfism despite choosing a 6-foot-tall donor on its website, according to Russian reports...
The past few years have seen a huge increase in the identification of rare and common genetic variants associated with disease, advances made possible through ever cheaper and faster genome sequencing technologies...
The Progress Educational Trust's event 'Testing Times: How Should We Use Genomic Data in Assisted Reproduction' took place at Amnesty International in London on the 16 May 2019. The event aimed to give members of the audience an insight into current uses
Advances in genomics are having a growing impact on fertility treatment and assisted reproduction...
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