A new type of CAR-T immunotherapy that targets aggressive T-cell blood cancer shows high remission rates and manageable side effects, according to the results of an international clinical trial...
Childhood kidney tumours contain significantly more genetic mutations than previously thought, according to recent research...
A long-running legal battle over patent rights for the Nobel-prize-winning CRISPR/Cas9 approach to genome editing has reignited...
Men who carry two copies of a common genetic variant are more than twice as likely to develop dementia as those without, according to new research...
Blood stem cells can be targeted directly with gene therapy to improve survival of newborn mice with rare disorders...
The reduction in copies of a single gene altering the virulence of plague might have resulted in the Black Death...
The event covered the exoneration of Kathleen Folbigg, an Australian mother who was wrongfully imprisoned following the sudden deaths of her four children. Her release was galvanised by novel genomic evidence, offering not only justice in a personal tragedy but a powerful precedent for legal systems globally...
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Human stem-cell-based embryo models: ethical and legal challenges
by Professor Emma Cave
Professor Emma Cave argues that even if human stem-cell-based embryo models were to replicate embryos so accurately that they ceased to be 'models', there would still – even then – be good reasons to distinguish them from embryos for regulatory purposes…
PET Podcast: Our Future Health, UK Biobank, Genomics England – Exploring the Impact
by Sarah Norcross
Bringing you PET events as a podcast. In the 29th episode of its podcast, PET explains and explores the different approaches of the UK's largest genomics projects, with Professor Dame Sue Hill, Dr Adam Lewandowski, Chris Schonewald and Dr Raghib Ali...
FILM: Preimplantation Genetic Testing – Barriers to Access
by BioNews
This film documents a PET event about access to and funding for preimplantation genetic testing (PGT), specifically in relation to monogenic conditions (PGT-M) and chromosomal structural rearrangements (PGT-SR)...