No more empty pates: stem cell therapy for baldness
Stem cells have been used to induce human hair growth in mice, in a US study. The researchers say their work could represent the first step in creating a cell-based treatment for male pattern baldness, or androgenetic alopecia, which affects almost half of all men by the age of 50...
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23andMe only heightens the need for genetic counselling
by Professor Joyce Harper
Partially out of curiosity and partially as an assignment for Radio 4's PM show, I was one of the first to 'get to know me', as their company slogan goes, and have my genome analysed by 23andMe...
Should Parliament vote to allow 'three-parent babies'?
by Dr Iain Brassington
It seems to have happened very quickly: it was only in 2012 that the public consultation process about allowing mitochondrial donation to be used on humans was underway; and now — if you'll allow the pun — the first child to have benefitted from them could be conceivable in the next few months...