UK researchers have discovered that a common gene variant helps explain why some people are more prone to gaining excess weight than others. Adults and children with two copies of a particular version of the FTO gene are, on average, three kilograms heavier than people who...
US scientists have unveiled a completed version of an entire monkey genome, that of the rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta). The researchers, based at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas and 34 collaborating institutions, hope that their findings will help explain key differences between monkeys...
The journal Cloning and Stem Cells has announced on its website that it has pulled a scientific research paper from publication, pending the outcome of an investigation into the research data's accuracy. The research was submitted by a team of researchers at Seoul National University (SNU) led...
A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association has cast doubt over the accuracy of predictive genetic tests for acute coronary syndromes (ACS). A team lead by Dr Thomas Morgan, formally of the Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, studied DNA samples...
The Senate has passed two pieces of legislation designed to relax the restrictions on stem cell research in the US. It has approved a much-anticipated bill to ease current restrictions on human embryonic stem cell (ES) research, allowing for federal funding to be used for research on...
A research team comprised of scientists in Brazil and Northwestern University, Chicago has shown that they were able to reverse or halt the progression of Type 1 diabetes in newly diagnosed individuals using injections of the patients' own stem cells. Of the fifteen volunteers treated, all but...
Scientists have claimed success in growing immature sperm cells from bone marrow, which they hope to employ in fertility treatments within five years. Professor Karim Nayernia, and his team from the Universities of Gšttingen and the Medical School of Hanover, took stem cell samples from the bone...
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PGD for early onset Alzheimer's disease: Preventing disease...not the cure
by Dr Alan Thornhill
We are currently planning to help the first British couple have a baby free from the risk of developing early-onset Alzheimer's disease (EOAD). Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) for this disease, which affects individuals in middle age (40s and 50s) - rather than the more common Alzheimer's whose effects are suffered considerably...