Advanced genomic analysis will transform how we practice medicine and how doctors will treat patients, from prevention to cure, says Prof Owen P Smith.

Science is rewriting the rules for how babies are conceived and born, writes Áilín Quinlan.

SCIENTISTS today said they had finished writing the “book of life,” the three billion letters of DNA that make up the human genome.

Many of the world’s leading scientists were meeting today to examine the latest advances in human genetics.