For the first time, scientists from Stanford University, California, have combined CRISPR genome editing with a stem cell system to model how a genetic mutation might affect heart disease risk...
Bacteria present in male testes — the testicular microbiome — may provide clues towards understanding a common form of male infertility...
A US sperm donor who has already fathered over 30 children has been prevented from impregnating women in Israel...
A Queensland woman has won the right to use her dead boyfriend's sperm to have a baby...
A common genetic basis has been found for schizophrenia, major depression, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and bipolar disorder, a new study has found this week...
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From acupuncture to yoga: Can lifestyle choices improve the odds of IVF working for you?
by Annabel Slater
'Those of us who work in infertility are not going to go out of business anytime soon,' commented Professor Richard Anderson, at the University of Edinburgh, at the Progress Educational Trust's (PET's) latest event, 'From Acupuncture to Yoga: Can Lifestyl
Podcast: Putting your genome to work - for the NHS, for industry, for the UK post-brexit
Hear genomics and industrial strategy discussed by Sarah Norcross (Progress Educational Trust), Dr Eliot Forster (MedCity), Dr Athena Matakidou (AstraZeneca), Dr Edward Hockings (Ethics and Genetics) and Dr Jayne Spink (Genetic Alliance UK)...
Genetic testing to reunite separated migrant families is an ethical minefield
by Dr Eleanor Taylor
US President Donald Trump has now abandoned his policy of separating migrant families attempting to enter the US. However, for those families that have already been divided, the process for finding one another again is not clear. Two commercial genetic te