26 May 2023
People with a rare condition experienced fewer or no complications after receiving an experimental mRNA therapy, with the technology having the potential to treat a range of disorders
25 August 2020
A man appears to have caught two lineages of the coronavirus around four and a half months apart, suggesting people can be reinfected with the virus after making a recovery – but there is much we still don't know
7 February 2020
23andMe and Ancestry are laying off staff as sales slump – but there’s plenty of profit to be made from their huge DNA databases
7 November 2019
UK health minister Matt Hancock has announced plans for the NHS to analyse everyone's DNA at birth, but the idea may breach ethical guidelines on genetic testing
25 October 2019
A controversial study argues that people carrying genes associated with educational achievement have been moving out of the most deprived areas of the UK
20 March 2019
Analysing huge genetic databases is allowing us to score people on their risk of common diseases, but the technique isn't ready to roll out across the NHS
8 November 2018
The way in which a statistic is presented can entirely change how alarming it sounds. And too often, both newspapers and scientific journals choose the most alarming, but least informative, way
23 March 2018
How well your kids do at school depends in part on the DNA you bequeathed them. What’s not clear is what we should do about this
7 March 2018
Genomics firm 23andMe is the first to receive approval for direct-to-consumer cancer gene tests in the US, but will recipients misunderstand the results?
1 March 2018
Researchers propose splitting diabetes into five subtypes instead of the current type 1 and type 2 diagnoses. It may help, but we need to know much more
