Surgeons have successfully transplanted a pig heart into a human recipient for the first time, enabled by genome editing...
Analysing genetic pathways linked to metabolism has moved researchers one step closer to understanding the genetics of obesity...
Pancreatic cells created from induced pluripotent stem cells and transplanted into patients with type 1 diabetes, have been shown to engraft and express insulin...
Fertility treatment is not the cause of adverse birth outcomes in babies born after medically assisted reproduction...
A Japanese woman is suing her sperm donor for fraud and emotional distress after discovering he lied about his credentials...
For the first time, a biomarker for symptoms of psychiatric illness has been discovered using neurons derived from schizophrenia patients' own cells...
If you are interested in finding out about fertility and fertility treatment, you will most likely embark on an online crusade only to find yourself completely inundated with information, a lot of which, sadly, is not very accurate...
The Centre for Bioethics and Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts, presented a fascinating talk on the opportunities for great medical advancements, and grave harm, presented to researchers by CRISPR/Cas9 and other apporaches to genome editing...
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FILM: Whole Genome Sequencing at Birth – Consenting Adults, Sequencing Babies
by BioNews
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