Electrodes in brain to ‘switch off’ pain
Breakthrough implant surgery may help patients to control agony caused by major injury. Jo Revill reports.
Pioneer DNA bank to examine lifestyles
Thousands of people are to be recruited for Britain's first DNA databank to help scientists understand how genes work with lifestyle factors to create disease, The Observer can reveal.
End of infertility within a decade, say doctors
The end of infertility is within sight, scientists said
yesterday, anticipating the possibility within a decade
of solving the biggest remaining problem by growing
new eggs and sperm from stem cells for people who
can no longer produce them.
On the edge of a genetic revolution to map out medical future at birth
£50m project brings benefits and risks, prime minister warns.
Hope in ovarian cancer battle
Scientists have identified a gene that seems to prevent ovarian
cancer. They found that the gene was "switched off" in almost 90% of
the ovarian tumours in their study.