Five-month-old baby receives £1.8 million gene therapy on the NHS
A baby has become the first NHS patient to receive gene therapy for spinal muscular atrophy...
News
Noncoding genome sheds light on developmental disorders
Seven newly-identified variants in non-coding regions of the genome suggest a new diagnostic strategy for developmental disorders in children...
Stem cell transplant can treat type 2 diabetes for six months
People who have had type 2 diabetes for less than a decade and have a BMI of less than 23 could benefit from a bone marrow stem cell transplant...
Gene variant that turns off fullness signal makes people gain weight
Obesity may be caused by a mutation in our genes and not just our environment...
Cells that initiate heart tissue development identified
Scientists at the Francis Crick Institute in London have shown the earliest known stage in mammalian heart development...
Complete human genome sequenced after 20 years
An international team of researchers claims to have sequenced the complete human genome, including areas which were missed in the original draft...
Breast cancer drug reduces the risk of recurrence by 42 percent
A targeted breast cancer treatment reduces the risk of BRCA-related cancer returning or spreading after chemotherapy...
Cambridgeshire CCG to review IVF policy
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group has announced it will be reviewing its 2017 decision to discontinue funding for IVF treatment...
Reviews
Podcast Review: Why Have Sperm Counts More Than Halved in the Past 40 years?
We've all been told that smoking, drinking too much and being overweight are bad for our overall health and can have a negative impact on our fertility...
Theatre Review: From Me to Us
The change in the HFE Act to extend eligibility for parental orders to single parents forms the basis of Wayne Steven Jackson's autobiographical play, From Me to Us...
Comment
FILM: Sarah Norcross and Dr Sarah Martins Da Silva discuss the future of male fertility
by BioNews
A conversation between Sarah Norcross (director of the Progress Educational Trust) and Dr Sarah Martins Da Silva (clinical senior lecturer in Systems Medicine at the University of Dundee) about the future of male fertility...
Fertilisation, the 14-day rule and beyond
by Dr Sigal Klipstein
The first IVF baby was born in 1978, and represented a milestone at the cross section of basic science, clinical research and patient care...