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Up to 20% of the donor's sperm contains the dangerous mutation that increases the risk of cancer
Sperm from donor with cancer-causing gene was used to conceive almost 200 children
LONDON — A sperm donor who unknowingly harboured a genetic mutation that dramatically raises the risk of cancer has fathered at least 197 children across Europe, a major investigation has revealed.Some children have already died and only a minority who inherit the mutation will escape cancer in their lifetimes.The sperm was not sold to UK clinics, but the BBC can confirm a "very small" number of British families, who have been informed, used the donor's sperm while having fertility treatment in Denmark.Denmark's European Sperm Bank, which sold the sperm, said families affected had their "deepest sympathy" and admitted the sperm was used to make too many babies in some countries.The investigation has been conducted by 14 public service broadcasters, including the BBC, as part of...
December 10, 2025

Sperm from donor with cancer-causing gene was used to conceive almost 200 children

Alyssa Teploy is now enjoying life
Pioneering treatment reverses incurable blood cancer in some patients
LONDON — A therapy that would once have been considered a feat of science fiction has reversed aggressive and incurable blood cancers in some patients, doctors report.The treatment involves precisely editing the DNA in white blood cells to transform them into a cancer-fighting "living drug".The first girl to be treated, whose story we reported in 2022, is still free of the disease and now plans to become a cancer scientist.Now eight more children and two adults with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia have been treated, with almost two thirds (64%) of patients in remission.T-cells are supposed to be the body's guardians — seeking out and destroying threats — but in this form of leukaemia, they grow out of control.For those on the trial, chemotherapy and bone marrow transplants...
December 09, 2025

Pioneering treatment reverses incurable blood cancer in some patients

A recent study found that regular consumption of orange juice changes the way thousands of genes in our immune cells work
Orange juice found to affect thousands of genes in immune cells, study says
LONDON — While orange juice is just part of the daily breakfast routine for most of us, scientists say that the simple drink has much more of an impact on the body than we perhaps realised.A recent study found that regular consumption of orange juice changes the way thousands of genes in our immune cells work.A significant number of these genes are involved in mechanisms that regulate blood pressure, reduce inflammation and control sugar metabolism. These are critical processes for long-term cardiovascular health.David C. Gaze, Senior Lecturer in Chemical Pathology at the University of Westminster, writing in The Conversation, explained the changes that orange juice consumption causes in the human body with examples from research.In recent research, adults drank 500 ml of pure...
December 03, 2025

Orange juice found to affect thousands of genes in immune cells, study says

Parents Jingru and Ricky hope the ground-breaking therapy will eventually be available for Oliver's older brother Skyler too
Boy with rare condition amazes doctors after world-first gene therapy
MANCHESTER — A three-year-old boy has astounded doctors with his progress after becoming the first person in the world with his devastating disease to receive a ground-breaking gene therapy.Oliver Chu has a rare, inherited condition called Hunter syndrome — or MPSII — which causes progressive damage to the body and brain.In the most severe cases, patients with the disease usually die before the age of 20. The effects are sometimes described as a type of childhood dementia.Due to a faulty gene, before the treatment Oliver was unable to produce an enzyme crucial for keeping cells healthy.In a world first, medical staff in Manchester have tried to halt the disease by altering Oliver's cells using gene therapy.Prof Simon Jones, who is co-leading the trial tells the BBC: "I've...
November 24, 2025

Boy with rare condition amazes doctors after world-first gene therapy

Researchers warned the gulf in side effects could affect people's health and whether they could stick to their prescription
Effects of antidepressants on physical health ranked for first time
LONDON — Side effects of different antidepressants have been ranked for the first time, revealing huge differences between drugs.Academics looked at the impact medications had on patients in the first eight weeks after starting treatment, with some causing patients to gain up to 2kg in weight or vary heart rate by as much as 21 beats every minute.Around eight million people in the UK take antidepressants.Researchers warned the gulf in side effects could affect people's health and whether they could stick to their prescription.They said nobody reading this should stop their treatment, but have called for antidepressants to be closely matched to the needs of each person."There are big differences between [antidepressants] and this is important not just for individual patients, but...
October 22, 2025

Effects of antidepressants on physical health ranked for first time

This single-celled brain-eating amoeba can enter the nose during swimming
Battling a rare brain-eating disease in an Indian state
DELHI — On the eve of Onam, the most joyous festival in India's Kerala state, 45-year-old Sobhana lay shivering in the back of an ambulance, drifting into unconsciousness as her family rushed her to a medical college hospital.Just days earlier, the Dalit (formerly known as untouchables) woman, who earned her living bottling fruit juices in a village in Malappuram district, had complained of nothing more alarming than dizziness and high blood pressure. Doctors prescribed pills and sent her home. But her condition spiralled with terrifying speed: uneasiness gave way to fever, fever to violent shivers, and on 5 September — the main day of the festival — Sobhana was dead.The culprit was Naegleria fowleri — commonly known as the brain-eating amoeba — an infection usually...
September 18, 2025

Battling a rare brain-eating disease in an Indian state

Global warming may increase sugar consumption in the US in the form of sweetened drinks, ice creams and frozen desserts, according to new research
Scientists find a surprising reason why people are eating more sugar
WASHINGTON – Ice creams, frozen desserts and super-chilled sodas take on a new appeal in sticky summer heat. As climate change drives hotter temperatures, Americans are consuming more and more of them, new research finds, with worrying health consequences.There is plenty of evidence climate change will shape food availability and quality, leading to shortages, price increases and even affecting nutritional value, said Pan He, a study author and a lecturer in environmental science and sustainability at Cardiff University. But far less is known about its effects on what we choose to eat and drink, she told CNN.The researchers scoured US household food purchasing data between 2004 to 2019 allowing them to track the same families over a long time. They then compared purchasing decisions with...
September 09, 2025

Scientists find a surprising reason why people are eating more sugar

In this photo provided by NASA, a cosmonaut and astronauts are seen in a SpaceX spacecraft shortly after having landed in the Pacific Ocean near California on Aug. 9, 2025
Going to space could speed up biological ageing, NASA study finds
HOUSTON — Going to space could speed up biological ageing, according to new research that tracked changes to human stem cells during four missions in space.The study, which was supported by the American space agency NASA, found that blood cells that were sent to space lost some of their ability to make healthy new cells and started showing genetic damage, both signs of accelerated ageing.“Space is the ultimate stress test for the human body,” said Dr Catriona Jamieson, one of the study’s authors and director of the Sanford Stem Cell Institute at the University of California San Diego in the United States.Jamieson’s team used artificial intelligence (AI)-powered imaging tools to track real-time changes to cultured human cells that were sent on four SpaceX missions to the...
September 05, 2025

Going to space could speed up biological ageing, NASA study finds

The baby had a bloated stomach and was unable to consume food
Indian doctors remove parasitic foetuses from baby's stomach
MUMBAI – Indian doctors have successfully removed "parasitic twins" or two foetuses that were growing inside the abdomen of a 20-day-old baby.Called foetus in foetu, the condition is extremely rare, with fewer than 200 cases being reported worldwide until now, a handful of them from India.The condition develops early in pregnancy where a malformed foetus is absorbed by the host twin. Though the foetus isn't alive, it continues to develop by absorbing nutrients from the host twin – hence the name "parasitic twin".In this case, the woman was pregnant with triplets and two of the foetuses began to grow inside the abdomen of the baby."The surgery was challenging but the baby is healthy and doing well," Dr Anand Sinha, a paediatric surgeon who led the...
September 04, 2025

Indian doctors remove parasitic foetuses from baby's stomach

In the foreground is a round, translucent, petri dish with tiny blue dots of bacterial growth. It is being held by a scientist, out of focus in the background, wearing a pair of purple latex gloves and using a fine needle-like implement to manipulate the blue bacterial colonies.
AI designs antibiotics for gonorrhoea and MRSA superbugs
NEW YORK – Artificial intelligence has invented two new potential antibiotics that could kill drug-resistant gonorrhoea and MRSA, researchers have revealed.The drugs were designed atom-by-atom by the AI and killed the superbugs in laboratory and animal tests.The two compounds still need years of refinement and clinical trials before they could be prescribed.But the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) team behind it say AI could start a "second golden age" in antibiotic discovery.Antibiotics kill bacteria, but infections that resist treatment are now causing more than a million deaths a year.Overusing antibiotics has helped bacteria evolve to dodge the drugs' effects, and there has been a shortage of new antibiotics for decades.Researchers have previously used AI to...
August 15, 2025

AI designs antibiotics for gonorrhoea and MRSA superbugs

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