Abbie Harper was a Volunteer Writer at BioNews. She is currently studying for an MSc at University College London’s Institute of Immunity and Transplantation, focussing on the clinical aspect of immunology, including experimental medicine and therapeutic approaches. She originally studied at Imperial College London, obtaining a BSc in Biochemistry with emphasis on immunology and genetics, and is now applying this knowledge to the field of medical sciences.
Heritable genetic variants associated with a blood disorder that is a risk factor for leukaemia and heart disease have been identified...
Functional sperm have been developed in vitro from rat stem cells and used to fertilise eggs and produce healthy offspring for the first time...
Using high-frequency sound waves to turn stem cells into bone cells could help patients with cancer or degenerative diseases regrow bone...
DNA with knot-like structures and third rungs between the two strands may drive cancer development, with an important regulatory enzyme involved in the formation of these structures...
Living robots, made of frogs' stem cells, can reproduce by a form of replication unseen in plants or animals...
Cells with mutations linked to cancer can outcompete normal cells after CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing...
Stem cells from rhesus macaque monkeys have been used to make sperm in a dish...
The exit of stem cells from hair follicle structures contributes to hair whitening and loss, in a mechanism which could be used to prevent baldness in humans...
A CRISPR-based therapy developed as a potential cure for HIV has been approved for human clinical trials by the US Food and Drug Administration...
The first human 'lung-in-a-dish' model, known as a lung organoid, representing all lung cell types and allowing replication of SARS-CoV-2 infection has been produced...
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