Leading Human Genome Project scientist, Sue Povey, dies
Professor Sue Povey, a leading scientist on the Human Genome Project, has died at the age of 76...
Professor Sue Povey, a leading scientist on the Human Genome Project, has died at the age of 76...
by James Close
A new gene therapy is being developed to treat the rare genetic condition Angelman syndrome in while the affected foetus is still in the womb...
A gene called CCR5 has been shown to affect people's ability to recover after stroke. It is the same gene at the heart of the recent controversial case of genome edited babies in China...
An 80-year-old woman from Oxford — Janet Osborne — has undergone the world's first gene therapy operation to target the root cause of age-related macular degeneration...
Baroness Nicola Blackwood, junior minister for innovation in the Department of Health and Social Care has acknowledged that there is a lack of evidence to back up the current time limit on egg freezing...
by Hugo Wolfe
Scientists who have decoded the great white shark genome for the first time may have uncovered clues which could help develop human cancer treatments...
The risk of being obese as a child can be predicted by DNA modifications that arise while in the womb, and may be influenced by the mother's diet, suggests a new study...
by Nana Mensah
The Wellcome Collection in London states its aim as challenging how we think about health. What better place than this to ask the question: 'Would you share your DNA?'...
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Extending the ten-year storage limit for frozen eggs
by Salima Budhani and 1 others
The UK's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 requires that human gametes (eggs and sperm) and embryos collected and stored by fertility clinics be destroyed after ten years, except in cases of premature infertility. This time limit applies to wome