Meghan Markle’s guest edit of Vogue wins Diversity Initiative of the Year award at PPA’s

The Duchess of Sussex has said she wanted the issue of Vogue that she guest edited to ‘reflect the world as we see it – beautiful and strong in its diversity’. British Vogue’s ‘Forces for Change’ edition which was guest-edited by Meghan Markle, 38, won the Diversity Initiative of the Year at the Professional Publishers Association … Read more

Google’s parent company funds start-up to ‘edit genes to protect against heart disease’

Google’s parent company, Alphabet, is now pouring funds into a start-up wants to gene-edit heart disease out of existence using a one-time injection.  Verve Therapeutics hopes to leverage its CEO’s discovery of a gene he believes is linked to lower heart disease risks to ‘fix’ the DNA of people at high risk of heart disease.  … Read more

Maura Higgins sizzles in a lace bodysuit as she launches Ann Summers swimwear edit

Maura Higgins celebrated the launch of her new swimwear edit with Ann Summers in style as she held a special meet and greet at the lingerie retailer’s store at The Brunswick Shopping Centre in London on Wednesday evening. The Love Island star, 29 – who postponed the event ‘out of respect for Caroline Flack on the … Read more

Doctors use CRISPR for the first time to edit blindness gene

Scientists say they have used the gene editing tool CRISPR inside someone’s body for the first time, a new frontier for efforts to operate on DNA, the chemical code of life, to treat diseases. A patient recently had it done at the Casey Eye Institute at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland for an … Read more