Relating to genetic information that cannot be inherited by the next generation (all body cells apart from egg and sperm cells, and their precursors).
Disruption to a gene causes malformations to the development of sperm tails, resulting in mice producing no functional sperm...
An advanced DNA sequencing tool can identify previously undetectable genetic mutations in human tissue with high accuracy...
Professor Sir John Gurdon, pioneer of developmental biology and Nobel Prize winner, has died aged 92...
Egg cells have been created from human skin cell DNA, which have then been fertilised with sperm to create embryos...
Single-nucleotide differences in a DNA sequence that are associated with an inherited cancer risk have been identified through a large-scale screening study...
Subtle changes in the brain can be identified decades before a diagnosis of Huntington's disease, two major new studies that shed light on what drives the disease have shown...
Unrepaired DNA damage lingers longer within cells than previously thought, potentially increasing cancer risk...
This piece by Vanessa Burns, exploring the impact the impact that CRISPR-based genome editing will have over the next 25 years, won the second prize in the inaugural Marcus Pembrey BioNews Writing Competition...
What do China's new ethical guidlines tell us about the country's changing attitude to human genome editing? Professor Joy Zhang reads between the lines...
New guidelines concerning the ethics of human genome editing research have been set by China's Ministry of Science and Technology...
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