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Mouse eggs can now be cooked up from scratch. Using stem cells, a Japanese team has created healthy eggs that, ...

THOSE who hoped the study would go away will be disappointed. Claims that eating genetically modified maize gives rats tumours ...

The largest study of genetic variance across present-day populations in southern Africa suggests that there is no single place in ...

Sequencing the whole genome of a fetus could provide a medical early warning on a previously unknown scale - but ...

It's not necessarily a negative thing for us to become less human, says transhumanist politician Giuseppe Vatinno ...

Sequencing the whole genome of a fetus could provide a medical early warning on a previously unknown scale - but ...

The genetic code of the fruit fly Drosophila has been hacked into, allowing it to make proteins with properties that ...

COULD we stem the tide of ageing by delaying the deterioration of stem cells? A new compound that appears to ...

It's official: stem cells are drugs. At least, that's the opinion of the US district court in Washington DC, which ...

Are women born with all the eggs they will ever have, or do they possess the ability to make more? ...

Salmon DNA records stretching back over 30 years show that nature has increasingly selected for fish that migrate from the ...

Forget patches: gene therapy could suppress cigarette cravings by preventing the brain from receiving nicotine. The treatment is effective in ...

EXCITING but terrifying. Powerful but scary. This is what some say about the emerging field of synthetic biology. Not surprising, ...

CONTROVERSY over genetically modified wheat is building to what seems likely to be confrontation in the UK on 27 May ...