Small number of cancers may be caused by 'one-off onslaught', study suggests
UK scientists have shown that a single, catastrophic event can induce multiple cancer-causing mutations, simultaneously. The event was first discovered when analysing the genome of a leukaemia patient and subsequently detected in a range of other cancers...
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The end of the HFEA: Are we throwing the baby out with the bathwater?
by Sarah Pritchard
'We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we began to form into teams we were reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising. And a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation' - quoted by Professor Robin Lovell-Badge. The Progress Educational Trust and Anne Mclaren Memorial Fund organised a debate last week...