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Professor Jérôme Lejeune, the French doctor who identified the cause of Trisomy 21 (Down Syndrome) and pioneered the treatment and care of children with the condition, will soon move a

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The latest research on life with Down syndrome paints a very positive picture. In a major feature in the American Journal of Medical Genetics, Dr Brian Skotko, of  Children’s Ho

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Two of the holy grails of medicine—stem cell technology and precision gene therapy—have been united for the first time in humans, say scientists. The British team cleanly corrected a hu

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A large study of the daughters of women who had been given DES, the first synthetic form of oestrogen, during pregnancy has found that exposure to the drug while in the womb (in utero) is

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Scientists at the New York Stem Cell Foundation Laboratory have reprogrammed an adult human egg cell to an embryonic state using cloning technology and created a self-reproducing line of embryonic

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All stem cells have the remarkable capability to replenish themselves by undergoing self-renewal. Yet, so far, efforts to grow and expand scarce haematopoietic (or blood-forming) stem cells in cult

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A quick and inexpensive test could save the lives of babies born with congenital heart defects, doctors say. A study of 20,055 newborns, published in

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Scientists in Kyoto University in Japan have succeeded in creating primordial germ cell-like cells (PGCLCs) with the capacity to generate sperm from mouse stem cells (both embryonic cells and induc

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Dr George Annas, writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, provides a useful summary of the recent decision by the Supreme Court of Canada in a case relating to how assisted reproduc

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The seventieth anniversary of a major condemnation of Nazi eugenic policies was marked by an editorial in L’Osservatore Romano, the semi-official newspaper of the Holy See. On August

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