People with Lynch syndrome to receive additional NHS screening for bowel cancer
The NHS has expanded access to its bowel cancer screening service for people with Lynch syndrome...
Ethics of germline genome editing to prevent genetic diseases from an Islamic perspective
Dr Sayyed Mohamed Muhsin and Dr Alexis Heng Boon Chin give an ethical analysis of germline genome editing to prevent genetic diseases based on Islamic legal maxims (Qawaid Fiqhiyyah)...
Infertility written in the DNA
Premature ovarian insufficiency is a relatively common cause of female infertility, leading to a menopause-like state before age 40. Dr Elena Tucker and Professor Andew Sinclair from the Unversity of Melbourne, Australia, explain the advances in understanding the genomic component of this condition...
CRISPR therapy treats rare genetic inflammatory disorder
A single dose of a CRISPR-based gene therapy could cure inflammation in people affected by a rare condition that causes life-threatening swelling attacks, according to a new clinical trial...
Methods giving insight into embryos named Nature Method of the Year
Methods for modelling development, including stem-cell-based embryo models, have been named Method of the Year by Nature Methods...
Hearing restored by gene therapy in children with rare genetic deafness
A gene therapy trial in China has restored hearing in children born with a rare genetic form of deafness...