A 13-year old girl has received the first ever 'base-editing' therapy, in which cells were genetically modified to fight her otherwise incurable leukaemia...
The All of Us study, which aims to sequence one million genomes in the USA, run by the National Institutes of Health, has announced it will inform participants of any health-related findings...
Whole genome sequencing will be used to detect rare genetic conditions in 100,000 newborns in a study run by Genomics England and the NHS...
The UK Government has pledged over £175 million to fund cutting-edge genomics research for newborns, cancer patients, and ethnic minorities...
The European Commission, the European Union executive responsible for proposing legislation, has proposed new regulation to allow parenthood rights to follow families across member states...
CRISPR has been used to eliminate the toxic protein build-up associated with Huntington's disease in mice...
In this six-part docuseries Chris Hemsworth challenges his mind and body in different ways over various episodes on a quest to gather and develop habits that may extend his life. In this episode 'Memory', Hemsworth receives worrying results from his DNA tests...
A new study, published in Nature, by world-renowned Stanford neuroscientist Professor Sergiu Pasca involved the transfer of human brain organoids into the brains of rats. Here, Dr Insoo Hyun, director of the Centre for Life Sciences and Public Learning at the Museum of Science in Boston, Massachusetts, speaks with Professor Pasca about his research...
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Are Some Fertility Patients More Equal Than Others?
by Dr Zaina Mahmoud
The third session of the Progress Educational Trust's 2022 annual conference 'Making Fertility Treatment Fair Equality in Access, Equality in Outcome?' was 'Are Some Fertility Patients More Equal Than Others?'...
Fertility Preservation: Windows of Opportunity
by Dr Valerie Shaikly
The fourth session of Progress Educational Trust (PET)'s 2022 Annual Conference 'Making Fertility Treatment Fair: Equality in Access, Equality in Outcome?' was chaired by Fiona Fox – founder and chief executive of the Science Media Centre, and former chair of trustees at PET...
Why egg donors need to be brought out of the shadows in surrogacy arrangements
by Dr Marilyn Crawshaw and 1 others
Dr Marilyn Crawshaw, chair of PROGAR – a UK group of child and family welfare organisations and individuals focused on the lifespan aspects of donor conception and/or surrogacy – and Nina Barnsley, director of the Donor Conception Network discuss the importance of egg donors in surrogacy arrangements...