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...
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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.
Special rules for US gene therapy trials relaxed
US gene therapy trials will now be treated like other clinical trials, as the National Institutes for Health step back from regulating them...
Risks of common diseases predicted from UK BioBank data
Researchers have developed a new way of analysing genomic data that may help identify disease risk much earlier than current predictors...
Gene therapy kickstarts stem cells to help blind mice see
Scientists have partially restored sight in mice with congenital blindness by using gene therapy to activate retinal stem cells...
Elephants' 'zombie gene' may give cancer insights
For their large body size, elephants should get cancer a lot more often than they do — now a new study has found out why...
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Game Review: Pandemic
'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...