Faulty genetic mechanisms particularly active in early life may lead to people developing autism, research suggests...
Last week, the US Supreme Court were still wrestling with the application of a 1930s law to the case of the twins born by IVF 18 months after their father died of cancer...
New treatments for male pattern baldness could be on the way, as scientists identify a protein they believe inhibits growth of hair follicles...
Many bioscience graduates lack the practical skills that make them attractive to employers, according to a 2010 survey. In order to fill this skills gap, the Society of Biology launched a degree accreditation programme this week...
A gene variant passed down from the mother has been linked to heavier newborns, according to scientists...
A genetic test could be used to spare breast cancer patients from having to undergo postoperative chemotherapy...
Couples in Northern Ireland claim they are being discriminated against as they are only offered one cycle of IVF treatment on the NHS. This is in comparison to the two or three available in the rest of the UK...
A mutation in a gene linked to obesity causes mice to eat up to 80 percent more than normal...
Officials in New York State in the USA have passed a bill requiring people convicted of almost any crime to provide a sample for the state's DNA database. While generally lauded, the move has attracted criticism from civil rights groups who claim that constitutional privacy issues are raised by the government holding so many people's genetic information on file...
Last week's Horizon on BBC2, 'The truth about fat', follows surgeon Gabriel Weston as she looks at the latest research exploring why so many people are clinically obese...
Consider a future world where pharmaceutical and genetic enhancements are the norm for sporting champions, where today's world records are smashed into oblivion...
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A small solution to a big problem
by Dr Iain Brassington
There's a part of 'Gulliver's Travels' where Gulliver visits the grand Academy at Lagado and finds one of the academicians trying to derive sunbeams from cucumbers. It's tempting to wonder at first glance whether there's something of the Academy to Liao, Sandberg and Roache's proposed strategy for combating climate change: that we could engineer human beings so they would be less of a drain on the environment...
Genetic pseudoscience races to the bottom
by James Brooks
Newspapers overcook mediocre science all the time. You know this, I know this. All the same, a story in the Sunday Times a couple of weeks ago deserves special mention for its utterly uncritical reporting...