Report warns against universal screening of babies' genomes
The universal screening of babies' genomes at birth is not 'inevitable', according to a new report from a US bioethics organisation...
The universal screening of babies' genomes at birth is not 'inevitable', according to a new report from a US bioethics organisation...
by Rikita Patel
US gene therapy trials will now be treated like other clinical trials, as the National Institutes for Health step back from regulating them...
Researchers have developed a new way of analysing genomic data that may help identify disease risk much earlier than current predictors...
Scientists have partially restored sight in mice with congenital blindness by using gene therapy to activate retinal stem cells...
For their large body size, elephants should get cancer a lot more often than they do — now a new study has found out why...
'Are you willing to bend the rules?' This is the first of many questions that you will be faced with in director John Bradburn's latest project with London's Science Museum: 'Pandemic', commissioned as part of the Frankenstein Festival...
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What does genome editing mean for Down's syndrome?
by Professor Robin Lovell-Badge
The recent Nuffield Council on Bioethics report 'Genome Editing and Human Reproduction: Social and Ethical Issues' has been both welcomed and criticised...