The Mississippi Supreme Court has overturned a ruling that an anonymous sperm donor has parental rights over a child born to a lesbian couple, upholding the legal parenthood of the non-biological mother...
UK hospitals are failing to screen bowel cancer patients for a genetic condition that significantly raises cancer risk, found a new report...
CRISPR greens may soon be served in the USA: the US Secretary of Agriculture, Sonny Perdue clarified the US Department of Agriculture's stance on crops that have been genome-edited using the tool...
Rare mutations in a gene that controls muscle function may contribute to some cases of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), according to new research published in The Lancet...
A storage failure at a private UK tissue bank may have resulted in the loss of valuable stem cell samples obtained from newborn babies...
A stem cell implant appears to be safe, suggest the results of a clinical trial for the dry form of age-related macular degeneration...
Estonia is offering a free DNA test to 10 percent of its population to identify people at risk of developing certain diseases, in the first state-sponsored personal genetic information service...
A US woman is suing her parents' former fertility doctor, after a home DNA test revealed he used his own semen to conceive her...
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Putting your genome to work: for the NHS, for industry, for the UK post-Brexit
by Jen Willows
The Progress Educational Trust event 'Putting Your Genome to Work: For the NHS, for Industry, for the UK Post-Brexit' took place at Amnesty International in London on 21 March 2018...
How blockchain technology can stop misuse of personal genomic data
by Dr Axel Schumacher
Reading Debbie Kennett's recent comment article on personal genetic testing (see BioNews 939), I found myself in complete agreement...