Scientists may now be one step closer to producing the first non-hormonal, male contraceptive pill after a successful animal study...
Researchers at Yale University in the USA may have found an explanation for why patients with severe depression often show a decreased brain volume in certain areas of the brain...
23andMe, a US-based personal genomics company, has sought regulatory approval from the Food and Drug Administration for seven of its genetic tests....
Views held by Paul Ryan — the man chosen by US presidential hopeful Mitt Romney to be his running mate — that life begins at fertilisation have caused a media furore in North America....
In the latest instalment of a highly contested case, the US Federal Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington DC upheld Myriad Genetics' right to patent two genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2,which are associated with the risk of breast and ovarian cancer....
A large-scale statistical analysis of DNA from nearly 150,000 people of European descent has identified ten new regions of DNA that may help us understand the biological processes linked to glucose metabolism and insulin production in type 2 diabetes....
An entire book, comprising 53,426 words, 11 images and a computer program, has been encoded into DNA. The data was stored and accurately read back by scientists at the Harvard University in the USA...
Families with higher levels of a protein linked to inflammation may be at a reduced risk of dementia....
Eating two handfuls of walnuts every day can improve sperm quality in healthy young men, researchers have found...
With the term 'Frankenstein' having become synonymous with 'mad scientists' who 'play God', and its status as the go-to criticism against any new technology that threatens to interfere with what is deemed 'natural', Shelley's story is as relevant today as ever it was. Indeed, what was once considered so morally abhorrent that it formed the fabric of horror has, with recombinant DNA, IVF, organ donation and embryonic stem cells to name but a few, been realised today several times over...
The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), also known as the Children of the 90s study, is a Bristol University-based project that has followed children born to over 14,000 pregnant women who enrolled between 1991 and 1992. A wealth of health, environmental and lifestyle data, as well as biological samples has been collected by this longitudinal population-based study over the past 21 years...
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The House of Lords inquiry into regenerative medicine: mapping the UK route for the commercialisation of cell therapies
by Dr Emily Culme-Seymour
The UK House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee has launched an inquiry into cell therapy and regenerative medicine to take place this autumn...