Breasts age faster than rest of body, DNA clock shows
A DNA-based biological clock has shown that different parts of the body age at varying rates, with breast tissue and tumour cells appearing older than the rest of the body...
by Siobhan Chan
A DNA-based biological clock has shown that different parts of the body age at varying rates, with breast tissue and tumour cells appearing older than the rest of the body...
by Nina Chohan
A recent survey of women aged 35 to 45 years old revealed that 60 percent of respondents admitted to feeling stigmatised for not having children...
Sex selection in IVF as a method of avoiding autism has been approved for the first time by health authorities in Western Australia...
A number of rare mutations in a gene that helps regulate how the body burns calories has been linked to an increased appetite and childhood obesity, according to a study from the University of Cambridge...
by Sandy Starr
Professor Lisa Jardine has announced that she is due to step down as chair of the UK's fertility and embryo research regulator, the HFEA, in January 2014...
Regions of the genome that do not code for proteins have been found to shape facial features, research at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA, has shown...
At this Royal Institution discussion examining the role that genetics can play in our justice systems, all speakers were in broad agreement with one another...
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Back to school - using genetics to personalise education
by Dr John Gillott
Dominic Cummings and Robert Plomin are claiming a great deal about the effect of genetics on intelligence, some of which is sound, some of which is not and some of which is very speculative...