Screening donors: New challenges in the UK fertility landscape
Screening gamete donors could reduce transmission of recessive genetic conditions, but also gives rise to new and ethically sensitive questions for recipients, clinicians and donors...
A change in the sequence of DNA. Mutations occurring in genes may prevent them from working properly, which might result in disease (a genetic condition). Mutations occur naturally at a low rate, but can also be induced by radiation and some chemicals.
by Professor Cathy Herbrand and 2 others
Screening gamete donors could reduce transmission of recessive genetic conditions, but also gives rise to new and ethically sensitive questions for recipients, clinicians and donors...
A simple blood DNA test could help doctors identify the best treatment options faster in patients with lung cancer...
Structural changes in a specific protein triggers egg coat hardening after fertilisation, research shows...
Two fertility clinic staff in Israel have been arrested over the transfer of embryos imported from Georgia, carrying a haemophilia B variant...
by Yan Lau
Three separate clinical trials of engineered immune cells have reported results for treating glioblastoma, an aggressive and hard-to-treat brain cancer...
A genome editing technique that allows researchers to test thousands of different mutations that might affect how cancer cells behave has been developed...
Researchers have unravelled how mutations in a single gene can cause abnormal brain development in fetuses and babies...
by Dr Sayyed Mohamed Muhsin and 1 others
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)...
Genomics will be integrated 'into every aspect of infectious disease control', according to a five-year strategy unveiled by the UK Health Security Agency...
Two clinical studies, trialing different gene therapies, have improved the hearing of children with a rare form of congenital deafness...
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