Radio Review: Seriously - The Great Egg Freeze
The contradictions of the burgeoning egg freezing industry are lucidly demonstrated out in The Great Egg Freeze, a radio documentary by journalist Fi Glover...
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
The contradictions of the burgeoning egg freezing industry are lucidly demonstrated out in The Great Egg Freeze, a radio documentary by journalist Fi Glover...
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