Annabel Slater is a Volunteer Writer at BioNews. She was previously Genetics Editor at BioNews and at the charity that publishes it and also edited Science for Environment Policy, a news and information service of the European Commission's Directorate-General for Environment. She originally studied Biological Sciences at the University of Oxford, and went on to obtain an MSc in Science Media Production from Imperial College London. She has been a researcher for the BBC and ITV, has produced short films about bio-art, and has developed virtual science laboratories for the educational company Labster. She has a particularly interest in synthetic biology and genome editing, and she tweets as @Scient_Art
This dystopian thriller explores a world where women are robbed of their reproductive autonomy by an unseen authoritarian presence, but be warned, it might leave you wanting a more nuanced discussion of fertility and gender, says Annabel Slater…
PET's event 'Rewriting the Rules: Is it Time to Simplify Fertility and Embryo Law' asked whether the legislation which regulates IVF and fertility treatment is still fit for purpose, and how this legislation might be improved...
Genomics England's Newborn Genomes Programme will explore the benefits, practicalities, and challenges of whole genome sequencing for newborn babies in the UK. The genomic data will be used to develop diagnostics and treatments for hundreds of diseases, particularly rare conditions…
The Progress Educational Trust's last event of 2021 continued the discussion about using whole genome sequencing in newborn babies...
Sarah Norcross, director of the Progress Educational Trust, invited the audience of the event to consider where assisted reproductive technologies stood 55 years ago...
Dark Lullaby, by Polly Ho-Yen, is a story about a dystopian society suffering mass, unexplained infertility. Yet I found the premise and world, even for a dystopia, somewhat unsatisfying...
In 1978, in the run-up to the birth of Louise Brown, the first IVF baby, the media speculated greatly over whether she would be normal. 'Had there been anything at all wrong with me,' Brown has reflected, 'I think it would have been the end of IVF'...
The second session at the Progress Educational Trust conference 'Fertility, Genomics and COVID-19' cast an expert look at whether COVID-19 affects fertility, and the health of a developing fetus...
'Age and fertility - a topic that never gets old', said Sarah Norcross, excusing herself for the pun, as host at the latest PET event...
Xytex is a major sperm bank based in Atlanta, Georgia. Donor 9623 was one of their star offerings, a sperm donor with an irresistible description...
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