Public open to doubling of 14-day limit on embryo research
A new dialogue report shows backing from members of the public for the extension of the 14-day limit on human embryo research...
The alteration of an organism's or a cell's genetic material using biotechnology techniques. Traditionally, the term has referred only to alterations involving the introduction of transgenic (foreign) DNA.
A new dialogue report shows backing from members of the public for the extension of the 14-day limit on human embryo research...
Two separate research groups reported the successful transplantation of a pig kidney into a human, after it had been genetically modified to prevent the body from rejecting it...
Egg cells are kept in a form of stasis from when they are first formed in the fetus until they mature in adulthood, by a protein which regulates transcription, a new study in mice has shown...
In January 2022, a heart transplant patient named David Bennett became world famous when it was reported that the 'donor' of the heart that had saved his life was – a pig...
by Farah Alam
Two patients who received CAR-T gene therapy over a decade ago are still in remission, the longest follow-up study of its kind has shown...
Hosted by Professor Matthew Cobb of the University of Manchester, Genetic Dreams, Genetic Nightmares took me back to his lectures during my undergraduate degree there...
I recently received a thoughtful letter from a college student I do not know – I'll call her Claudia* – who took the time to reach out to me with her perspective on heritable genome editing in embryos...
In the BBC documentary, Eugenics: Science's Greatest Scandal, science journalist Angela Saini and disability rights activist Adam Pearson tackle the difficult subject of eugenics...
Mitochondrial donation has seeded a growing literature in bioethics, law and the social sciences. This technology, which introduces third-party mitochondria to an embryo or oocyte, has contributed to many long-standing social and ethical questions...
Nostalgia is a powerful driver of human behaviour. Over the past three years, Penguin Random House has tapped into this emotion by launching adult books with the unmistakable writing style, illustrations and appearance of the classic Ladybird children's b
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