Genetic testing not helpful?
6/5/2008 |
Doctors have warned that although many of the genetic tests being pushed for dozens of conditions are truly useful some of them are "complete rubbish".
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Major blindness breakthrough
29/4/2008 |
Gene therapy for a rare type of inherited blindness has improved the vision of four patients, boosting hopes for the troubled field of gene repair technology, scientists say.
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Humans may have faced extinction
25/4/2008 |
A study suggests that humans may have had a brush with extinction 70 000 years ago and estimated the number of early humans may have shrunk as low as 2 000.
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Stem cells from menstrual blood?
23/4/2008 |
Researchers seeking new and abundant sources of stem cells have identified a potentially unlimited, non-controversial, easily collectable, and inexpensive source – menstrual blood.
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Genome breakthrough a milestone
17/4/2008 |
The idea of having your personal genetic code unravelled was once a dream reserved for individuals who were fans of science or big on ego - and deep in pocket.
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Human-animal embryo breakthrough
2/4/2008 |
In a breakthrough that may help pave the way to a variety of cures, British scientists have managed to create human-animal hybrid embryos that survived for three days.
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Embryology bill debate heats up
26/3/2008 |
Finding cures for diseases such as Parkinson's or Alzheimer's could be jeopardised if Britain's proposed new bill on embryology gets watered down, scientists warn.
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Nano-scale structures made from DNA
13/3/2008 |
Best known as the blueprint for life, DNA is also a marvel of architecture that can be used to build 3-D structures measured in billionths of a metre, according to a new study.
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Happiness in the genes
7/3/2008 |
You can't buy happiness, but it looks like you can at least inherit it, British and Australian researchers claim.
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CO2 eating lifeform created
29/2/2008 |
A scientist who mapped his genome and the genetic diversity of the oceans said he is creating a life form that feeds on climate-ruining carbon dioxide to produce fuel.
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