Life-threatening allergies and asthma could one day be treated by a single injection, say researchers who have successfully treated mice using gene therapy...
A highly-sensitive DNA blood test could help detect cancer years before tumours are detected...
A drug treatment for ovarian cancer has shown success against inherited breast cancer...
Two trials of a new gene therapy have successfully treated blood cancers in patients who were unresponsive to standard treatment...
Our ability to read people's thoughts and emotions through their eyes is influenced by our DNA, new research suggests...
Fetuses in the late stages of pregnancy move their heads towards shapes that resemble faces, suggesting that the ability to recognise faces may be innate...
Scientists have identified the first promising biomarker for Huntington's disease (HD) that could be harnessed in a simple blood test to predict disease onset and progression...
The UK's first symposium to discuss the sociology of mitochondrial disorders and novel reproductive technologies took place on 5 May 2017 in London. The event aimed to develop sociological thought around mitochondrial donation, based on invited contributi
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Genetic disorders: empowering patients and families through information
by Arti Patel
'I've got the diagnosis, now what?' is one of the first questions families ask when they contact us at Unique, the UK-based organisation for rare chromosome and genomic disorders...
Flushed with success, but we will still need IVF
by Stuart Lavery and 1 others
The recent study from Dreyer et al examining the chance of natural pregnancy following hysterosalpingography has provoked a significant amount of interest in the lay press, with suggestions that this well established diagnostic fertility test could be off