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Gene therapy injected in one eye can travel to the other eye

9 December 2020

In one form of gene therapy to treat loss of sight, a virus containing genetic material injected in one eye has now been shown to travel into the untreated eye

Prone to motion sickness? Your sex, diet and shoe size may be to blame

19 August 2020

We are finally solving the mystery of why motion can make us queasy – just in time to help us deal with nausea-inducing VR headsets, driverless cars and space tourism

Sharon Moalem interview: Why women are genetically stronger than men

29 July 2020

We know that women live longer and are less susceptible to certain diseases than men. That may be down to the benefits of having two X chromosomes

Nature versus nurture

21 July 2020

Are we shaped more by our genes or the environment in which we grow up and live? The truth involves both – and is a lot more complicated than we thought.

Eugenics

21 July 2020

Eugenics is the highly controversial idea that humanity could be improved by controlling who can produce children and pass on their genes

Epigenetics

16 July 2020

Epigenetics is the study of how genes are influenced by the environment.

A safety switch may pave the way towards controlled use of gene drives to control mosquitoes

CRISPR safety switch can make cells self-destruct if they go rogue

21 February 2020

A genetic tweak can make cells self-destruct in the presence of CRISPR and could be used to make cells tamper-proof or shut them down if they go wrong

Should animals with human genes or organs be given human rights?

18 February 2020

Gene-edited pigs and brain implants are blurring the lines of what it means to be human, so our morals and laws may need to change to include beings that are “substantially human”

Reindeer's real superpowers could help us beat depression and cancer

18 December 2019

So what if Rudolph can’t really fly? He and the herd have some truly amazing evolutionary adaptations that could inspire new treatments for human diseases