A UK government committee has criticised plans for a new medical database project, which aims to collect genetic and health information from 500,000 volunteers aged between 45 and 69. The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee considered the £45 million Biobank UK proposal in its third report, published last...
Following last week's claim from Brigitte Boisselier, president of Clonaid, that evidence of cloned human babies was to be presented to the world, Clonaid have released a photograph of what it claims is the third cloned baby born. The photograph, released last Monday, shows a baby in an incubator. But...
The UK Court of Appeal is to decide whether Raj and Shahana Hashmi, the British couple who want to use 'tissue typing' to have a child, will be allowed to continue in their attempts to do so. They are attempting to conceive a child who would be a possible cord...
Diane Blood, the British woman who made legal history by fighting to have a baby using her late husband Stephen's sperm, and who last month won a court battle against the Government to have him named as the legal father, is another step closer to her goal. She has been...
Gene therapy could help treat Alzheimer's disease (AD) by reducing the build-up of a harmful protein in the brain, according to a new US study. Researchers at the Salk Institute, the University of San Diego, California and the University of Kentucky have managed to lower the levels of beta-amyloid, one...
Human sperm use a chemical sensor to help them swim towards the egg, according to a new study. Scientists based at the Rohr University, Bochurn in Germany and the University of California in Los Angeles, US, showed that sperm have a protein on their surface that allows them to detect...
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Banking on Biobank
by Juliet Tizzard
This week's BioNews reports on the House of Commons Science andTechnology Committee and its recently published views on the Medical Research Council. Of most interest to BioNews readers will be its view that the planned genetic database, Biobank UK, suffers from a 'lack of confidence in some quarters'. In...