Sickle cell disease is caused by a single genetic mutation that alters the shape of red blood cells. While the condition causes severe pain and health complications, carriers gain resistance to ...

At a district hospital in Ghana, a mother watches her child grow weaker with each visit. Test results come back “normal.” ...

IVF allows parents to choose embryos with the least harmful genetic makeup, helping prevent rare or debilitating genetic ...

Food made from pigs engineered to be resistant to a porcine virus are as safe and nutritious to eat as pork currently on the ...

For the first time, the tools to rewrite human biology are moving from speculative fiction into regulated clinics and ...

The NHS has defended cousin marriage because most do not lead to birth defects, it has emerged. Midwives have been told about ...

A consultant neurologist at the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, Dr. Temitope Farombi, has called on the Nigerian ...

Picture CRISPR-Cas9, a gene editing technology, as a GPS-guided scalpel: gRNA directs the Cas9 enzyme, a protein that cuts ...

Healthcare professionals must reject flawed racial generalisations, writes Jasmeen Kanwal Institutional racism in healthcare has received increased coverage in recent years, including in The BMJ ’s ...

More than 12,000 reports of alleged sexual assault have been recorded in NHS hospitals across the UK over the past five years ...

Organ transplants are a "never-ending tragedy," with referrals steadily going up while the number of organs available remains ...

Most days, our bodies are just there—mundane vessels we inhabit on autopilot. We wake up, get on with our routines, eat, sleep, repeat. But the moment you actually stop and think about what’s ...