Independent
UK: Ordinary laboratory animals are outnumbered by GM counterparts for first time
The following is an edited excerpt. The number of genetically modified (GM) animals used in scientific research in Britain has ...
Britain moves toward “three-parent” IVF babies
Three-parent IVF could head off inherited mitochondrial disease in babies in Britain ...
UK: Police told to explain use of unregulated DNA database
The following is an edited excerpt. UK police and intelligence services have been sending terror suspects’ DNA to counterparts around ...
If GM crops are bad, show us the evidence
The following is an edited excerpt. It is nearly 20 years since the first GM crops were grown. Some 28 ...
Europe’s anti-GE stance denies Africa the right to feed itself
The following is an edited excerpt. A leading African academic has issued a withering attack on the “petty political mischief” ...
Europe’s anti-GM stance denies Africa’s ability to feed itself
A leading African academic condemns European environmentalists for blocking the adoption of biotech crops ...
Even if gene therapy does work, how will a stretched NHS foot the bill?
The following is an excerpt. Gene therapy is one of those medical "breakthroughs" that has unfortunately failed to live up ...
Genetically modified crops needed to ‘feed the world,’ says U.K.’s chief scientific advisor
The following is an excerpt. The case for genetically modified (GM) food is getting stronger because of its importance as ...
Genetic mutations linked to childhood obesity
The following is an excerpt. The rise in the number of overweight children in Britain may be as much to ...
Women with a family history of breast cancer could be offered preventative medicine
The IndependentWomen with a family history of breast cancer could be offered preventative ...The IndependentThe NHS may also start offering ...
Geneticist suggests human species is on an intellectual decline
Professor Gerald Crabtree, who heads a genetics laboratory at Stanford University in California, has put forward the iconoclastic idea that ...
Genetic Profiteering: Scandal of firm ‘hiding vital breast cancer data’
The company that makes the world's biggest-selling gene test for breast and ovarian cancers is refusing to share groundbreaking knowledge ...
Nature, nurture or neither? Epigenetics is the new twist in an age-old argument
It is a shibboleth of family life – that every individual is the product of their genes and environment, the ...
Opponents of this crop trial are blind to the food crisis, says GM supporter
The battle over GM food has begun again and it seems there is little in common between those in favour ...
Man faces GM wheat break-in charges
A 50-year-old man has been charged with criminal damage after an incident at a research centre where a trial of ...
