Mother takes legal action against sperm bank for her child's dwarfism
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...
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
by Sandy Starr
Advances in genomics are having a growing impact on fertility treatment and assisted reproduction...
Genome-wide analysis in South Asian populations may provide insight into rare genetic diseases, suggests research...
The general public have appropriated the term DNA to mean much more than just the molecule itself. This may not be a problem most of the time but, in the case of donor eggs and sperm in particular, it's important that people are clear on what genetics and epigenetics really tell us...
Is elite performance in sport linked to genes, training, or luck?...
Geneticists have estimated that each of us carries an average of one or two lethal, but recessive, genes in our DNA...
Partially out of curiosity and partially as an assignment for Radio 4's PM show, I was one of the first to 'get to know me', as their company slogan goes, and have my genome analysed by 23andMe...
Researchers have pinpointed two genetic mutations behind a severe developmental disease seen in children of Moroccan Jewish descent...
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