Facebook and Apple offer egg-freezing to employees
Apple and Facebook have acknowledged that they are offering their employees in the USA egg cryopreservation services for non-medical reasons in a move that has divided public opinion...
Apple and Facebook have acknowledged that they are offering their employees in the USA egg cryopreservation services for non-medical reasons in a move that has divided public opinion...
by Seán Byrne
Illumina has announced the first three companies in its Accelerator Programme, designed to help genomics start-ups as other sources of funding grow scarce...
by Arit Udoh
Fizzy drinks may accelerate cell ageing in a manner comparable to the effects of smoking, according to research...
A drug can reverse the effects of two Parkinson's disease-causing mutations in fruit flies, a study reports...
by Jenny Sharpe
Retinal cells derived from human embryonic stem cells have been safely transplanted into the eyes of patients with currently incurable sight loss...
Professor Chris Toumazou had an unconventional route into science. The son of Greek Cypriot parents, as a child he often felt driven to swot up on science in an attempt to prove his smarts to doubting peers...
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Genomic medicine needs you - do you need genomic medicine?
by Dr Kimberley Bryon-Dodd
The Progress Educational Trust's event on the 100,000 Genomes Project gave the general public an opportunity to ask a panel of experts about the ethics of the project, the security of the data and its long-term
sustainability...
Better Together: Why devolution of fertility legislation is not a good thing
by Stephen Harbottle
The Association of Clinical Embryologists is concerned that proposals to devolve powers for forming legislation covering the provision of fertility treatment, genetic screening and abortion to the Scottish Parliament may be a step too far in the process of devolution...