The reasons why IVF treatment sometimes results in twin or triplet births — even though only one embryo is used — have been found by the largest study to date on single embryo transfer and multiple pregnancy...
Researchers have bred mouse pups with genetic material from two male, or two female parents...
Genome editing has been successfully used to treat a serious liver disease in fetal mice while still in-utero...
A one-off genetic test could identify people with a genetic predisposition to coronary heart disease, according to a new study...
Sperm motility, a measure of sperm quality, is declining in the USA and Spain, two new studies have found...
A new IVF drug has been shown to help boost birth rates following IVF treatment, by helping embryos implant in the womb...
'Dreams Before the Start of Time', a novel by Ann Charnock, 2018 winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for SFX Book of the Year, begins in a not-so-distant possible future. In this world, humans exert so much control over reproduction that, over the cours
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Whose genome is it anyway? Big Data and your DNA
by Annabel Slater
DNA is effectively data. If we are concerned about the data stored on our phones and computers, on social media sites and government servers, should we extend our concern to our DNA? ...