Dr Anna Cauldwell was previously a Volunteer Writer at BioNews and currently a drug analyst in CNS, Autoimmune/Inflammation and Ophthalmology at Citeline. She obtained her PhD from Imperial College London, under the auspices of the Wellcome Trust's PhD Training Programme in the Molecular and Cellular Basis of Infection, where she researched the influenza virus. Previously, she studied Molecular Cell Biology at the University of York and worked as an Industrial Trainee at AstraZeneca.
Scientists have shown that there are seasonal changes in how our immune system functions....
The malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum's resistance to artemisinin, one of the most effective antimalarial drugs, has been partially unravelled in a new Nature Genetics' study...
Genetics researchers in the US have identified mutations that significantly increase the likelihood that an individual will go on to develop blood cancer...
Twenty-three genetic variants associated with increased risk of prostate cancer have been identified in a new study, bringing the total number of susceptibility variants for the disease to 100...
Two patients with the serious inherited blood disorder beta-thalassemia have been able to stop blood transfusions 12 days after receiving experimental gene therapy...
People with genes that predispose them to excess weight and obesity are more likely to put on weight from eating fried food, a study says...
Genes linked with type 2 diabetes, Crohn's disease and even smoking addiction were acquired through interbreeding with Neanderthals, a study published in Nature suggests...
A molecular technique that enables any part of the human genome to be altered with extreme precision has been hailed by scientists as a breakthrough in genetics...
A highly anticipated experimental treatment for the genetic condition Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy has failed in a key test of its effectiveness in a critical phase III clinical trial.
Canadian dentist Michael Zuk, who spent almost £20,000 on one of John Lennon's rotten molars at an auction in 2011, now plans to sequence Lennon's DNA in the hope of cloning him....
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