Fatal Genetic Diseases

Valery Spiridonov, 31: Russian tech geek who runs an educational software company from his home east of Moscow. Because he has Werdnig-Hoffmann disease, a genetic disorder that wastes muscles and motor neurons, he is physically capable of little beyond feeding himself, steering his wheelchair with a joystick, and typing. The disease is usually fata...

New rules proposed in Britain would make it the first country to allow embryos to be made from the DNA of three people in order to prevent mothers from passing on potentially fatal genetic diseases to their babies.

Genetic vulnerabilities could lead to powerful new treatments for colon cancer and the researchers hope that the drugs designed to strike these weak spots will eventually stop the disease that is almost inevitably fatal once it spreads, a study by an Indian-American professor says.

Valery Spiridonov, 31: Russian tech geek who runs an educational software company from his home east of Moscow. Because he has Werdnig-Hoffmann disease, a genetic disorder that wastes muscles and motor neurons, he is physically capable of little beyond feeding himself, steering his wheelchair with a joystick, and typing. The disease is usually fata...

New rules proposed in Britain would make it the first country to allow embryos to be made from the DNA of three people in order to prevent mothers from passing on potentially fatal genetic diseases to their babies.

Genetic vulnerabilities could lead to powerful new treatments for colon cancer and the researchers hope that the drugs designed to strike these weak spots will eventually stop the disease that is almost inevitably fatal once it spreads, a study by an Indian-American professor says.