Two monkeys have been cloned in China using the same technique that saw Dolly the Sheep cloned in Scotland.

The use of a dead spouse’s sperm or eggs to conceive a child is a debate that Ireland must have about the ethics of preserved genetic material, says Kathryn O’Sullivan.

Geneticists from Trinity College Dublin have used evolution to work out why a small number of genes can contribute to autism spectrum disorders, schizophrenia, ADHD, intellectual disability, epilepsy and developmental delay.

Is it the birth of a new era for preventing genetic disorders or a case of scientists meddling too far, asks Caroline O’Doherty

The country’s top geneticist has said the breakthrough ‘three-parent’ technique used by doctors to ensure a baby was born free from the genetic condition that killed his siblings could potentially help a small number of couples in Ireland.

Ireland's early population may have come to the country from as far away as the Middle East and Eurasia, a genetic study has found.

Five different recipes of prostate cancer have been identified, with major implications for the way the disease is treated.

WE are descended from Africans who first arrived in Europe about 45,000 years ago. The newcomers had to adapt to a colder climate and to prolonged winter darkness. It was thought that they lost their black skin, and several other characteristics, relatively quickly but a skeleton found in a Spanish cave has made scientists think again.

Motherhood can no longer be determined on the basis of giving birth, and both it and fatherhood are instead determined according to “inheritable characteristics” or a “blood link” to a child, the Supreme Court was told yesterday.