Cancer gene targets found and ranked using CRISPR
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News
First birth after robotic uterus transplant in Sweden
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Scientists insert human genes into monkey brains
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Sydney Brenner, geneticist and Nobel laureate, dies aged 92
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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.
First baby born in mitochondrial donation for infertility trial
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Reviews
Podcast Review: Beyond Today — Should egg freezing be free?
Beyond Today is a BBC Radio 4 podcast series that aims to engage young people in current news topics. Harriet Noble, one of the show's producers, tackles fertility in this 22-minute programme after pondering whether she should pay to freeze her eggs...
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Germline in the sand: where should we draw the boundaries for genome editing?
by Jen Willows
Genome editing was the subject up for discussion at the Progress Educational Trust's 'Germline in the Sand' event, held at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on 19 March 2019. The discussion, which was supported by the Scottish Government sought