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Glowing monkeys 'to aid research'
(BBC 27/05/2009)
Genetically modified primates that glow green and pass the trait on to their offspring could aid the fight against human disease. Though primates that make a glowing protein have been created before, these are the first to keep the change in their bloodlines. Future modifications could lead to treatments for a range of diseases. The "transgenic" marmosets, created by a Japanese team, have been described in the journal Nature. The work raises a number of ethical questions.
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Building blocks of life to be used for genetic research lab
(The Scotsman 01/12/2008)
WORK is set to start on a landmark genetics research centre shaped to resemble a pair of human chromosomes. The £58 million project at Easter Bush, near Penicuik, was due to get under way today. The office and research laboratories will be split into two blocks - the different parts of the human chromosome. Coloured panels, representing the DNA "fins", will link the two blocks...
Meet Millie, 7, who still smiles despite disease so rare it affects just FOUR people worldwide
(Daily Mail 25/11/2008)
Millie's will require constant care for the rest of her life and doctors say she may never advance beyond the emotional age of a 3-year-old. Human cells normally contain 23 pairs of chromosomes. Millie's precise disorder is an 'inverted duplication with a partial deletion in the smaller half of her number eight chromosome, or inv dup del 8p'.
The XYY Factor: How a rare chromosome disorder brought my son a world of pain
(Daily Mail 01/11/2008)
Like thousands of other boys, ANNABEL GILES' son has an extra chromosome. In devastating detail, she provides an extraordinarily candid account of her life as the single parent of a special-needs child.
Horse therapy helps 'unique' boy
(BBC 17/10/2008)
The parents of a four-year-old with a rare genetic disorder say he is being helped by horse riding. Dyfan Wynne, from Wrexham, is the only known child in Britain with the condition called 'Chromosome 8 deletion'. It has left him with poor eyesight, learning difficulties and the need for heart operations. But hippotherapy, physiotherapy on horseback, has helped him learn to walk..
The first UK couple to conceive thier entire family using embryo screening
(Daily Mail 02/10/2008)
Joanne and Adam Henry feared they would never be parents after doctors discovered Joanne had a gene defect. But experts at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital in London used a pioneering embryo-testing technique to help conceive their healthy children Amy, five, and Harrison, who is just a few weeks old. Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis is used to assess the health and viability of embryos.
Simple powder to beat 2,400 genetic diseases goes on sale in two years
(Daily Mail 15/09/2008)
A powdered drug (PTC124) to ease the symptoms of incurable genetic diseases could be on sale within two years. They hope it could treat 2,400 conditions, including some types of cystic fibrosis and Duchenne muscular dystrophy, as well as the blood clotting disease haemophilia.
Decoding me
(BBC 28/07/2008)
'I paid '£500 to have my genome analysed'
Home genetic tests: How much do you really want to know?
(The Independent 12/07/2008)
A round 2 per cent of the population will suffer from bipolar disorder at some point in their lives. That doesn't sound much. But what if there were a test which would tell you that you were likely to be one of those who will go on to develop it. Would you take it?
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