The communities of microbes living in and on the human body — known as the microbiome — differ enough between people that researchers can use them to tell one person from another in a population of hundreds...
Patents for the gene-editing technology, CRISPR/Cas9, are the subject of a dispute between scientists at University of California, Berkeley and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard....
Researchers have discovered a pattern in 11 genes that could make it quick and easy to diagnose sepsis, a serious life-threatening condition...
A French company claims to have grown human sperm cells in a laboratory for the first time....
Scientists have shown that there are seasonal changes in how our immune system functions....
Molecular biologists have used gene-editing technology to identify promising targets for anti-cancer drugs...
'The Olympic Journey: Born Winners' sets out to answer the question 'Are winners born or made?' In the process, it offers a look into the science of what it takes to become a winner and addresses the consequences of genetic testing in the future of the sporting world...
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by Sarah Norcross
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Is the UK sperm donor shortage a myth?
by Dr Kamal Ahuja
For the first time, a British sperm bank has sufficient stocks and donors to begin supplying clinics registered by the HFEA. The move marks a shift in the dynamics of UK sperm donation and would suggest that the perception of any shortage of donor sperm in Britain is no longer true...
A TripAdvisor for fertility clinics - would you recommend it?
by Dr Nicoletta Charolidi
At this Progress Educational Trust event there was a lively debate about whether and how the HFEA should collect feedback from patients about fertility clinics across the UK and publish it on its website...