The US patent office has declared an 'interference' - re-opening the long-running dispute between the University of California (UC), Berkeley and the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, over who invented CRISPR genome editing first...
More than 150 researchers have backed a letter written by senior scientists protesting the move to close one of the UK’s leading mouse-genetics centres at the Harwell Institute in Oxfordshire...
A Canadian fertility specialist, Dr Norman Barwin, has lost his medical licence for using the wrong sperm, including his own, to inseminate a number of IVF patients...
The chance of success with fertility treatment using IVF or ICSI decreases if a man is over 51, according to a new study...
The increasingly popular technique ICSI has no advantages over IVF in treating cases not related to male infertility, according to a new study...
Exposure to environmental air pollutants may decrease a woman's ovarian reserve, suggests a new study...
While IVF use in Europe has risen, the success rates after IVF or ICSI appear to have peaked...
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What can healthy individuals learn from getting their genomes sequenced?
by Dr Jess Buxton
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...