A gene variant has been linked to a lower risk of the most common cause of stroke in people under 50...
Alcohol dependence may be determined by a set of genes that work together as a network, according to a US study...
The NHS Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group has agreed to fund one cycle of IVF, having at one time been the only CCG not to offer the treatment at all after funding was suspended in 2010....
US-based genetic testing company 23andMe has launched its controversial 'personal genome service' in the UK...
The US Centers for Disease Control has released a health advisory warning clinicians that flu vaccines will have diminished effectiveness against one strain currently circulating in the US as it has mutated to become resistant...
Women who consume a Mediterranean-style diet are less likely to show evidence of 'cellular ageing' and therefore more likely to live longer, say US researchers...
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the DNA double helix structure, has auctioned off his gold Nobel Prize awarded for the discovery for over £3 million....
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Commercialisation and the moral obligation to create 'designer' babies
by Professor John Galloway
Although the word was not actually used (or at least I did not hear it), this was a polemic making the case for 'eugenics'...
The Ohio sperm mix-up: What's the harm in giving birth to a healthy, beautiful baby girl?
by Dr Antony Starza-Allen
A claim filed against an Ohio sperm bank for using the wrong sperm donor leading to a woman giving birth to 'a beautiful, obviously mixed race, baby girl' ignited a furore because of race...