Opinion: A crackdown on firms selling gene tests direct to the consumer would come at a cost.

In parallel to the Would you like some gene tech with that? event was a Tweet-fest elaborating on and taking tangents different to what was happening in the Science Exchange.

How should clinics that treat patients with injections of their own stem cells be regulated? That question is about to test the jurisdiction of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Herald Sun: 23 August 2010
Australian Financial Review 23 August 2010
Reference
PLoS One
A Combined Epigenetic and Non-Genetic Approach for Reprogramming Human Somatic Cells,
Jinnuo Han, Perminder S. Sachdev, Kuldip S. Sidhu*
Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
UNSW Stem Cell Lab

Growing meat in large vats of culture is just one solution proposed in a series of 21 papers published by the Royal Society investigating the issue of food security.

A discussion with Professor Keith Campbell, School of Biosciences, Division of Animal Physiology, University of Nottingham

UK statistics reveal a 10% rise in the use of genetically modified animals for research, scientists appear to be divided about their usefulness

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.