Major mental illnesses share unexpected gene activity
Several psychiatric disorders — autism, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depression — share patterns of gene activity, an international team of scientists has found...
News
PET patron wins prestigious award
Baroness Mary Warnock, patron of the Progress Educational Trust (PET), which publishes BioNews, is to be awarded a major international prize for her work in bioethics...
Sequencing company proposes trading genetic information for cryptocurrency
Nebula Genomics, a new firm founded by geneticists, has announced its plan to sequence customers’ genomes cheaply and allow them to sell their own genomic information for digital money...
Human eggs grown in a dish for the first time
Researchers have grown fully developed human eggs in the laboratory for the first time...
Scientists film brain stem cells dividing into neurons for first time
Researchers have successfully filmed the division of stem cells in an adult mouse brain, for the first time...
Utah Senator tries to overturn his own surrogacy legislation
Lyle Hillyard of the Utah state Senate is seeking to overturn legislation giving legal protection to parties involved in surrogacy agreements, to prevent it being used by same-sex couples...
Single molecule found for breast cancer spread
Blocking a single molecule, the amino acid asparagine, can prevent breast cancer spread in mice, according to a new study...
Reviews
Book Review: The Ethics of Pregnancy, Abortion and Childbirth - Exploring Moral Choices in Childbearing
Academics have written at length on the ethics of reproductive technologies, abortion and speculative possibilities such as reproductive cloning. But pregnancy itself up until recently has been a somewhat neglected topic...
Comment
A scramble for headlines or an optimistic (sunny side up) contribution to research on fertility preservation?
by Professor Robin Lovell-Badge
The problem of fertility preservation for girls and women undergoing cancer treatments has been a subject of research for many decades. The recent study by McLaughlin and colleagues from Professor Evelyn Telfer's lab at the University of Edinburgh, UK, is