The BioIndustry Association (BIA), representative organisation for some 200 biotech companies, is to publish its own code of conduct. The draft code, scrutinised last week by the UK Science and Technology Committee, covers a range of issues, such as the appointment of non-executive directors, the release of information in a...
A new method of performing gene therapy may lead to human trials as soon as next year. Groundbreaking research, carried out on mice by Clifford Steer and colleagues at the University of Minnesota Medical School in Minneapolis, has shown that it may be possible to fix faulty human genes, rather...
After a meeting of the board of governors, the Wellcome Trust has abandoned its plans to extend the Hinxton biotechnology park in the wake of the government's decision to back South Cambridgeshire District Council's refusal to grant planning permission. A statement made it clear that 'The Trust will now explore...
Scientists have identified the location of a gene for dyslexia, creating the possibility of screening and the early treatment of the disorder. An international team in Norway, Belgium and the US has narrowed the new gene's location to a short stretch of DNA on chromosome 2 by studying a large...
Doctors at Kings College Hospital in London made medical history by successfully delivering a baby which had grown outside of the womb. Triplet Ronan Ingram was delivered by caesarian section shortly after his two sisters had been taken out of their mother's womb. But unlike them, Ronan had grown outside...
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More silly talk of men having babies
by Juliet Tizzard
Since infertility specialist Robert Winston mentioned some months ago that it may one day be possible for men to be pregnant, he quickly regretted raising a topic that promises to have a very long media gestation. Now Professor Jurgis Grudzinskas of the Royal London Hospital has made the same mistake...