The South Australian Supreme Court has granted a woman permission to use her deceased husband's sperm for IVF treatment....
An injection to prevent breast cancer by silencing a cancer-causing gene has shown early promise in mouse studies...
The High Court of Australia has awarded damages under contract law to a doctor who purchased assets of a fertility clinic, including a stock of cryopreserved sperm, after almost two thirds of straws provided were unusable...
A gene variant increases the risk of type 2 diabetes in Latin American populations, according to a study in Nature...
The same genetic variant that makes some people more prone to stress has been shown to increase the risk of having and dying from a heart attack...
Researchers in China have developed a new non-invasive method for detecting genetic defects in IVF embryos that could improve the chances of successful IVF for some patients...
The largest genetic study of rheumatoid arthritis to date has found an additional 42 disease-associated locations in the genome...
In the first of three Christmas lectures with the theme 'life fantastic' from the Royal Institution, Dr Allison Woollard answers the ever-important question: 'where do I come from?'...
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Progress Educational Trust conference: Multiple choice question
by Daniel Malynn
The third session of 'Double Take: Twins in Genetics and Fertility Treatment' covered a broad range of opinions and specialties. There was discussion of patient choice over embryo transfer, talk of treatment access and decisions over genetic testing...
Should persons affected by mitochondrial disorders not be brought into existence?
by Dr Calum MacKellar
Mitochondrial replacement techniques are not a form of therapy in which a person is being treated or cured for a disorder, but instead make sure that that certain persons are not brought into existence. This is a crucial difference since it then questions the equality in value and worth of every possible future person...