A lawsuit brought against a London hospital by a woman whose father's doctors failed to inform her of her risk of Huntington's disease could result in major changes to the laws surrounding patient confidentiality...
Authorities in China are moving to suspend the research activities of the scientists who claim to have modified the genomes of twin girls with CRISPR-Cas9...
Scientists have produced elaborate placenta-like organoids in a dish, which may aid in the research of pregnancy disorders...
A gene therapy relieves Parkinson's disease symptoms by rewiring the brain circuits involved in movement...
A proposed bill in Indiana would make it a crime for a doctor to use his own sperm during fertility treatment without the patient's consent...
A new paper documents three unrelated families where paternal mitochondrial DNA is present in offspring...
A study of 55,000 people has found the first regions of the genome linked to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)...
Men who smoked while their partners were pregnant have sons with lower sperm counts, according to a study in Sweden...
Question: can you name a single breast cancer gene? If we surveyed the public, BRCA would be my bet for the most common reply...
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BioNews CRISPR Appeal
by Sarah Norcross
This week the world's media has been gripped by the birth of what are purported to be the world's first genome-edited babies...
Genome editing in humans could become both ethical and prudent if properly regulated
by Professor John Harris
The announcement that Chinese scientists had genetically edited two embryos resulting in genome-edited human babies has occasioned outrage. My first reaction is that this action (if true) is both premature and reckless...
I remember where I was when I heard about the world's first genome-edited babies
by Dr Andy Greenfield
I remember where I was when I first heard about the deaths of Elvis and John Lennon, and about the planes that flew into the Twin Towers. Now, I can add to that list where I was when the news broke of the birth of two genome-edited babies.