Glybera, the first gene therapy to go on sale in Europe, is set to cost €1.1m (£870,000) per patient, making it the world's most expensive drug...
Thailand's interim parliament has voted in support of a law to ban its largely unregulated surrogacy trade.
Genetics researchers in the US have identified mutations that significantly increase the likelihood that an individual will go on to develop blood cancer...
Common variants of immune-related genes have been linked with memory performance...
Nerve cells that react to pain and cold in the same way as human neurons have been formed in the lab, scientists report...
An informative and encouraging view into becoming a family through donor conception - the Donor Conception (DC) Network way...
Precisely how adaptation and innovation fits into the process of natural selection remains a mystery. Evolutionary biologist Andreas Wagner thinks he's cracked the puzzle and tried to get us to agree at this Royal Institution lecture...
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Click through on Cyber Monday
by Sarah Norcross
Cyber Monday is the day on which internet shopping sales are expected to soar...
Whose genome is it anyway? Ethics and whole genome sequencing before birth
by Professor Ainsley Newson
Geneticist Razib Khan's decision to obtain the whole genome sequence of his partner's fetus in utero shows us that genomics is no longer a fantasy. While it would be a mistake to use this one example to condemn the entire practice of whole genome sequencing prior to birth, I will suggest here why we should look before we leap...
Where you get your information about breast cancer
by Sandy Starr
Where do people seek out, or most commonly come across, information about breast cancer? And how confident are they that this information is accurate?...