Ireland: mother of surrogate baby loses maternity benefit case
The mother of a child born through surrogacy has lost her challenge against a decision to reject her application for paid maternity leave at the Irish High Court...
News
Brain metabolism mediates inherited anxiety
New research demonstrates that metabolic over-activity in the brain associated with anxiety and depression is passed from parents to children...
Image by Peter Artymiuk via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts the shadow of a DNA double helix, on a background that shows the fluorescent banding of the output from a DNA sequencing machine.
ASHG warns parents to limit genetic testing
The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) has cautioned against genome-wide genetic testing unless clinically indicated, especially for children...
RNA findings could diagnose male infertility
A test to diagnose male infertility that uses RNA as a biomarker has been developed by researchers in the USA...
Time to confront genomics data problem, say scientists
Scientists have warned that the world of genomics is headed for a data bottleneck...
Gene therapy for deafness moves closer
A technique that delivers genes into the inner ears of mice has been used to restore hearing, marking the first time that gene therapy has been successfully used to treat deafness...
Reviews
Film Review: The Lion's Mouth Opens
Julia Hill reviews 'The Lion's Mouth Opens', a moving portrait of Huntington's Disease...
Comment
Paternal age bioethics: have we missed the point?
by Dr Sarah Martins Da Silva
Kevin Smith should be applauded for raising awareness of men's biological clocks, but his proposal to 'genetically improve' the human population through sperm banking seems preposterous...
Unexplained infertility - inexplicable guidelines
by Professor Roy Homburg and 1 others
The recommendation in the 2013 NICE guideline to exclude IUI as a treatment option is based on flimsy, and sometimes mistakenly interpreted, evidence...