Controversy over sickle cell testing of athletes in US
The US National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has introduced new legislation requiring all incoming students at the highest level of intercollegiate athletics to be tested for sickle cell trait. The testing, which will affect approximately 170,000 incoming student-athletes, is being watched closely as a case study of modern large-scale genetic screening...
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Can we learn anything from internet sperm traders?
by Professor Allan Pacey
Thanks to the successful conviction of two men from Reading, we now know trading in fresh sperm on the internet is illegal. Sounds like a lesson in the obvious, but this is the first time the law has been clarified - after many years of watching several of these so-called businesses appear and disappear. Hopefully, we will now finally see an end to such operations...
Goodbye BioNews, and thanks
by Professor Kirsty Horsey
It feels very strange to no longer be a BioNews editor, having been doing this for the best part of the last ten years and having been associated with Progress Educational Trust (PET) for even longer than that. For one thing, I'm not entirely sure yet what I'm going to do with my Mondays....