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CRISPR has been hailed as the an editing tool that can delete inherited mutations and cure disease. But recent papers suggest that the technique may be too dangerous for use in human therapies.
Specially designed computer games might improve the lives of people with Huntington’s disease.
The new Tasmanian tiger genome reveals some fascinating facts about this extinct marsupial, including why they were so similar to dogs, and how they were growing more vulnerable to genetic disease.
Cystic fibrosis, spinal muscular atrophy and fragile X syndrome are serious diseases, and most couples carrying the genetic mutations for these don’t know it. Should they all be tested?
Canadian insurance companies argue that a new law denying them access to genetic test results will raise the cost of insurance for everyone. That’s doubtful.
We still don’t know what’s behind four out of every five birth defects. But that can change.
A new report from the National Academies of Science and Medicine outlines conditions that have to be met before gene editing that results in heritable genomic changes can be considered.
Experts from around the world are in the US to discuss the scientific, ethical and governance issues linked to human gene editing. Here are five reasons they shouldn’t ban research in the field.
Today is the start of World Retinal Week. Establishing retinal degenerative disorders in Africa is challenged by the unique genetic diversity of Africans.
History shows how scientists and the public tried to understand hereditary cancer risk well before we had the technology to discover mutations and test for genetic disorders.
Scientists have discovered that a single gene may reveal a weakness in the development of schizophrenia that could help doctors prevent the condition.
Gene therapy is allowing us to switch on natural beneficial mutations to counteract the effects of negative mutations in diseases such as sickle cell anaemia.
That genetic editing techniques have become as straightforward as they have poses questions for how we want them to be used.
Leading researchers have called for a ban on using a precise gene-editing technology on humans. How can CRISPR advance science and why is it raising concerns?
When a family member dies from a disease caused by a genetic mutation, doctors have to decide whether to share the deceased person’s test results with the rest of the family.
There’s a huge variety in physical appearance in Latin America: there are indigenous native Americans, descendants of African slaves, Europeans and Middle Easterners of all kinds, and Chinese and Japanese…
The presence of foreign objects, like viruses, in our bloodstream is usually a bad thing. Evolution has created some extremely efficient immune cells that patrol the blood, seeking out material that should…
The UK government has announced its intention to draft proposals allowing carriers of mitochondrial disease to have babies using a controversial IVF treatment that’s currently prohibited. The procedure…
Researchers have found the missing genetic material that explains haemophilia. Haemophilia B is a genetic disorder that disrupts…
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Professor and Director, Centre for Genetic Diseases, Monash Institute of Medical Research, Monash University
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Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic Quality and Professor of Molecular Biology, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Law & Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Medicine Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Winthrop Professor of Psychiatry, School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, The University of Western Australia
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Clinical Geneticist at Victorian Clinical Genetics Services and Researcher in Craniofacial Research, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Associate Professor, Garvan Institute
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Professor, School of Medicine, Neuroscience Research Australia
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Chair, Public Health Committee, Cancer Council Australia
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Researcher, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Senior Research Fellow, Menzies School of Health Research
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Postdoctoral Fellow, History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
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Professor of Chemistry, Connecticut College
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Postdoctoral Associate in Science and Society, Duke University
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Developmental Biologist, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Co-Director, Health and Policy, Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney
