James Gallagher
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‘Testes in overdrive’: Male efforts to improve attractiveness can damage ability to have children
Scientists have uncovered an evolutionary paradox where men damage their ability to have children during efforts to make themselves look ...
Taking cancers apart ‘piece-by-piece’ in search for vulnerabilities that could be attacked with precision medicine
Scientists have taken cancer apart piece-by-piece to reveal its weaknesses, and come up with new ideas for treatment. A team ...
Relapse risk could be predicted by cancer’s ‘internal wiring’
The "internal wiring" of breast cancer can predict which women are more likely to survive or relapse, say researchers. The ...
‘Planetary health diet’ aims to feed 10 billion people without causing ‘catastrophic’ environmental damage
A diet has been developed that promises to save lives, feed 10 billion people and all without causing catastrophic damage ...
‘Baby bust’—Why fertility rates are plummeting around the world
There has been a remarkable global decline in the number of children women are having, say researchers. Their report found ...
Gene therapy cures rat’s paralysis—could human beings be next?
Scientists say they have taken a significant step towards the goal of giving paralysed people control of their hands again ...
Hidden half of us: ‘You’re more microbe than you are human’
More than half of your body is not human, say scientists. Human cells make up only 43% of the body's ...
Macular degeneration patients see hope in embryonic stem cell treatment
Doctors have taken a major step towards curing the most common form of blindness in the UK - age-related macular ...
‘Like a mobile phone’: The genome sequencer that fits in your pocket
Scientists have used a device that fits in the palm of the hand to sequence the human genome. They say ...
Hemophilia A gene therapy trial results: ‘This is huge’
British doctors say they have achieved "mind-blowing" results in an attempt to rid people of haemophilia A. Patients are born ...
Beta-thalassemia blood disorder removed from human embryo with gene editing
Precise "chemical surgery" has been performed on human embryos to remove disease in a world first, Chinese researchers have told ...
Human-pig embryos could offer more for us than their organs
Embryos that are less than 0.001% human - and the rest pig - have been made and analysed by scientists ...
Future without women? ‘Pseudo-embryos’ could one day replace eggs in baby making process
Scientists say early experiments suggest it may one day be possible to make babies without using eggs. They have succeeded ...
Lab-grown embryos reveal earliest stages of life
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scientists say a breakthrough ...
Genetics of breast cancer mapped in medical ‘milestone’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scientists say they now ...
Regulators give UK scientists green light to genetically modify human embryos
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. UK scientists have been ...
Some UK scientists arguing for embryonic gene modification in ‘morally acceptable’ circumstances
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A Hinxton Group report ...
Do genes predict how your body is aging better than years?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scientists say they have ...
New therapy could greatly improve lives of cystic fibrosis patients
A "groundbreaking" cystic fibrosis therapy could profoundly improve patients' quality of life, say doctors. Patients often die before their 40s ...
United Kingdom first to approve “3-person IVF babies”
The UK is now set to become the first country to introduce laws to allow the creation of babies from ...
Neuroscientists awarded Nobel Prize for discovering brain’s internal GPS
The Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine has been awarded to three scientists who discovered the brain's "GPS system". UK-based ...
UK genetics research making strides in cancer and rare disease treatment
Prime Minister David Cameron has said it "will see the UK lead the world in genetic research within years." The ...
Acid bath stem cell method scientist retracts study
The researchers behind the acid bath stem cell method that caused a stir in January have asked to retract the ...
Developing a test to predict prostrate cancer risk
DNA testing can predict which men face the highest risk of deadly prostate cancer, scientists say. The team at the ...
Only two genes make the man…or mouse
Scientists have practically obliterated the ultimate symbol of maleness in DNA, the Y chromosome, and believe they may be able ...
Genetic study shows dangerous bacterim not spread in hospitals, as previously thought
Analysis of every C. diff infection in Oxfordshire for more than three years showed less than a fifth of cases had ...
Early-stage embryo chemicals broadcast genetic health information to the uterus
It is important for the lining of the womb to know if an embryo is healthy before allowing it to ...
Alzheimer’s blood test edges closer
For now, there is no definitive test for Alzheimer's disease. Doctors rely on cognition tests and brain scans. So one of ...
