Police made 87 arrests following a series of demonstrations and break-ins by UK animal rights activists last weekend. The protests, organised by campaign group Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (Shac) targeted five pharmaceutical companies: Bayer, GlaxoSmithKline, Eli Lilly, Roche and Pharmacia. Hundreds of protesters took part in attacks on the laboratories...
Members of the European Parliament approved new rules governing the production of genetically modified (GM) foods last week, by 338 votes to 52. The decision could mark the end of a two year moratorium on the introduction of new GM products into the European Union. However, six of the EU's...
Last week saw the publication of the entire human genetic code, around three billion base pairs of DNA. The two draft versions, published by the Human Genome Project public consortium and US firm Celera Genomics, are both around 90 per cent complete. The results reveal that humans probably have around...
The publication of the first draft of the human genome sequence has been clouded by the ongoing dispute over data access. The disagreements between the public consortium and biotech firm Celera Genomics led to the publication of two different versions of the genome in rival journals, Science and Nature, last...
A man who has been identified as the legal father of his ex-partner's daughter - even though he is not her biological father - has lost his appeal to meet the child. The court of appeal upheld a ruling made in the high court last autumn that although he is the legal...
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by Dr Jess Buxton
So now we have it: the results of years of hard work by hundreds of scientists around the world were finally published in bumper issues of the journals Nature and Science last week. The entire human genome sequence, or at least 90 per cent of it, was unveiled with much...