The sponsors of one of the cloning bills before the US Senate are believed to have nearly completed an amendment to the bill which they hope will improve its appeal to as yet undecided Senators. The amended bill could be ready for a floor debate and vote within the next...
According to a story printed in yesterday's Sunday Telegraph, Professor Robert Edwards, who worked with the late Patrick Steptoe to pioneer the development of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) in the late 1970s, is in favour of human cloning. The newspaper says that Edwards would back the creation of human clones...
The UK Consumers' Association and GeneWatch UK, an independent genetics watchdog, have welcomed a decision by 13 of the UK's largest high-street retailers not to sell genetic test kits for use at home by the public. Boots, Waitrose, John Lewis, Holland and Barrett and Marks and Spencers are among the...
Research in mice has yielded another possible genetic explanation for male infertility and a link to testicular cancer. A team led by Haifan Lin, a professor of cell biology at Duke University Medical Center, US, has discovered that a gene in mice - called miwi - is linked to infertility. The study...
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Genetic testing and consumer choice
by Dr Jess Buxton
What would it take to make you stop smoking, cut down your alcohol intake or eat more greens? Would personalised health advice based on a genetic test do the trick? In this week's BioNews we report on the criticism faced by Sciona, the UK company trying to market just such...