What would be the first clinical trial to use induced pluripotent stem cells has been granted ethical approval in Japan...
Hormone replacement therapy, used to treat the symptoms of menopause, may play a role in slowing the ageing process in women who carry a certain gene variant, claim scientists...
A gene behind a rare bladder condition has been identified with potential implications for a far more common bladder problem affecting up to one percent of children...
Twenty-four genes linked to short-sightedness have been identified by an international consortium of scientists...
Palestinian prisoners are reportedly smuggling sperm out of Israeli prisons to impregnate their wives...
A patent over a gene linked to hereditary breast and ovarian cancers is valid, an Australian federal court has ruled in a landmark case....
A slowdown in DNA repair mechanisms, one of which involves the BRCA genes implicated in cancer, may partly explain why women's eggs rapidly decline in both quantity and quality in middle age...
The principal purpose of Professor Emily Jackson's book, Law and the Regulation of Medicines, is to outline medicine's journey through UK regulation. Jackson seeks to show that those responsible for the content of the regulatory regime, and the way in which it is administered, play a crucial role in shaping the development, supply and marketing of medicines....
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Policing preimplantation genetic diagnosis: patients first please
by Professor Alan Handyside and 3 others
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority recently announced plans to review the list of approved inherited conditions for which preimplantation genetic diagnosis is currently licensed to ensure that it is only available for conditions which meet the statutory requirements in the UK...
Court decision in Germany supports rights of the donor conceived to access their donor's identity
by Dr Petra Thorn
On 6 February 2013, the Higher Regional Court in Hamm, Germany, granted a 21-year-old donor conceived woman the right to access the identity of her donor. Further steps must be taken in order to provide a comprehensive legal framework....