Genetics expert Jean Bennett explains how gene therapy is being used to treat certain forms of inherited blindness.
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For women with a family history of serious genetic disorders, abortion is a critical option: a security feature that allows them to consider having children.
Understanding your genes is a great way to understand certain things about yourself — yet, who we are is determined by so much more than just DNA.
A rare type of inflammatory disease that causes repeated bouts of high temperatures can run in families. Here’s what we know so far.
Should Australia allow the creation of babies with DNA from more than two people? This reproductive technology could prevent babies being born with mitochondrial disease, so the simple answer is yes.
Genetic traits like a bulbous nose or balding give some people reasons to moan about what they inherited from their parents. But more serious genetic flaws can cause debilitating disease. Now, Italian…
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Postdoctoral research fellow, Inflammation Division, WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research)
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Professor Emeritus of Ophthalmology; Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania
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