Secret millionairess funded research for first IVF baby
What links the world's first IVF baby, Louise Brown, and a self-made American millionairess...
News
Four-fold rise in births to women over 50 in England and Wales
Hundreds of babies are being born every year to women aged over 50, according to official figures for England and Wales...
Genetic test identifies very highest risk men for prostate cancer
Sixty-three novel gene variants linked to prostate cancer in men have been discovered...
Genome-editing cells with CRISPR may affect cancer risk
The success of genome editing is related to the activity of an important tumour suppressor gene, two separate studies have found...
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.
Gene therapy dissolves scar tissue to heal rat spinal cord, reversing paralysis
A novel approach to gene therapy has restored limb control to rats paralysed after spinal cord injury, new research has found...
UC Berkeley to gain two US CRISPR patents
The US Patent and Trademark Office has decided to grant two new CRISPR patents to the University of California, Berkeley...
Non-coding DNA determines genitals in mice
Scientists have found a section of non-coding DNA that determines what genitals mice develop...
New structure found in sperm may help understand infertility
Cutting-edge microscopy has unveiled a structure inside sperm that may play a key role in infertility and birth defects...
Reviews
TV Review: CBS 60 Minutes — 'CRISPR'
The world is waking up to CRISPR. American media giant CBS sets out to explain to the public what genome editing is — and why it matters — by interviewing some of the top scientists behind the technology...
TV Review: Four men, 175 babies: Britain's Super Sperm Donors
As an embryologist working in a fertility clinic, I frequently use donor sperm to help individuals and couples become parents. In my little fertility clinic bubble, sperm donation is a highly regulated process...
Comment
The strongest defence against genetic discrimination
by Professor Yann Joly
Genetic discrimination, the excessive profiling or negative treatment of individuals based on their genetic characteristics is a recurrent ethical issue and a source of psychological distress for individuals considering undertaking a genetic test...