A New Dawn for Life: The Arrival of Babies with Three-Person DNA In a landmark achievement for medical science, the United Kingdom has seen the birth of eight healthy babies conceived using a pioneering in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) technique that incorporates DNA from three individuals. This groundbreaking procedure, known as mitochondrial donation therapy (MDT), offers a…
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Decoding the Human Body: How a Vast UK Health Project is Revolutionising Medicine Scientists have reached a pivotal moment in medical research, completing the 100,000th scan in the world’s most ambitious initiative for human imaging. This milestone offers a unique window into the human body's aging process. With over a billion images from UK volunteers,…
The £10 Genome: Global Alliance Unveils Plan to Map All Pathogens A groundbreaking global initiative is set to expand a low-cost genetic sequencing method, crucial during the COVID-19 pandemic, to all pathogens, whether they are identified or new to science. This ambitious project, named ARTIC 2.0, seeks to make advanced genomic surveillance accessible worldwide, especially…
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