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Category: Genetics

Ethical issues dog genetic testing and biobanks

Posted on 30th August 201615th November 2017 by Sarah

IT COULD change the way disease is diagnosed and treated: millions of human tissue samples, their information stored in vast databases, allowing health researchers to trawl for patterns. The patterns could point to disease risk among population groups, and could one day lead to the possibility of personalised medicine. This sort of research is particularly…

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Stem cell research outstrips legislation

Posted on 6th September 20156th September 2015 by Sarah

It starts in a dish: a collection of cells that can be made to grow into corneas, hearts or livers, or used to treat currently incurable diseases. This is the future that stem cell therapies could offer us, but the path to that future is strewn with ethical and legal pitfalls that South Africa needs…

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The Murky Morality of Biobanking

Posted on 6th September 20156th September 2015 by Sarah

Biobanks are in short supply in South Africa, a place whose inhabitants have some of the greatest genetic diversity in the world. These repositories of human tissue, used for health research, could save lives as scientists find links between diseases and population groups – and, possibly, cures to currently untreatable diseases. But in giving consent…

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