A US government investigator told members of Congress on Thursday that personalized DNA tests claiming to predict certain inheritable diseases are misleading and offer little or no useful information.

A husband was denied the right to have his wife’s life support switched back on to allow collection of her eggs for conception through IVF. Partners have been allowed to collect dead men’s sperm, so what is the difference?

The first reliable components for synthetic biology could be available by the end of the year.

A CSIRO researcher says developed countries need to stop throwing away so much food if the world is to feed its growing population.

Adult-derived cells reprogrammed to behave like embryonic stem cells act differently depending on where the cells came from, according to papers published today in Nature and Nature Biotechnology.

The passionate seem more driven to act, but how much can they skew the reality of the situation? In this case, quite a lot, it appears.

As their due date creeps closer, many pregnant women pack a go bag for the hospital: toothbrush, iPod, cute bringing-baby-home outfit, and possibly now a kit to collect and donate the blood in their babies’ umbilical cord.

There has been serious advances in research unveiled this week that involve the use of stem cells to regenerate or repair organs with stem cell. This is just a couple of the stories

Who would have thought there could be serious ethical issues with induced pluripotent stem cells – or iPSC.

Thanks to a set of new tricks and tools, modifying animals is becoming a lot easier and more precise, which could transform medicine and the meat and eggs you eat and the milk you drink.