The European Court of Justice (CJEU) has cleared the way for the patenting of human parthenotes for industrial and commercial purposes, clarifying the definition of 'human embryo' excluded from patentability in European Law...
Researchers have estimated that around 65 percent of variation in cancer rates between tissue types is related to the number of stem cell divisions, explaining why cancer occurs more commonly in some parts of the body than others...
Eleven NHS Genomic Medicine Centres have been announced by Genomics England to spearhead the 100,000 Genomes Project...
A baby has been born with a genetic condition after a laboratory used by a Nottingham fertility clinic reportedly made a mistake interpreting PGD results...
Regulations to legalise and govern the use of mitochondrial donation techniques have been placed before the UK Parliament....
23andMe, the personal genetics company, has announced an agreement with biotech company Genentech to identify new therapeutic targets for the treatment of Parkinson's disease...
All newborn babies in England are now to be offered screening for four rare life-threatening genetic disorders...
For the first time, researchers have succeeded in creating human sperm and egg precursor cells from stem cells...
The first advanced therapy containing stem cells has received a positive assessment from the European Medicines Agency...
'Darwin, you've got some explaining to do!'...
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