Sickle cell reversed with gene therapy in teenager
A teenage boy in France appears to have been cured of sickle cell disease using a gene therapy. He has been free of all signs of the disease for 15 months...
Ayala Ochert was previously Science Editor at BioNews and at the charity that publishes it, the Progress Educational Trust (PET). She is currently a freelance science journalist, and has written for publications including Nature, New Scientist, Discover, the Independent and the Times Higher Education Supplement. Previously she was Editor of Interactions, the member newspaper of the Institute of Physics. She has also worked as Associate Editor of California Monthly, the alumni magazine of the University of California, Berkeley. She has a diverse range of interests, has written on subjects ranging from anthropology to zoology, and is currently writing a book on the science of breastmilk.
by Ayala Ochert
A teenage boy in France appears to have been cured of sickle cell disease using a gene therapy. He has been free of all signs of the disease for 15 months...
by Ayala Ochert
Miscarriage rates following IVF appear to increase when the clocks go forward in the spring, according to a study...
by Ayala Ochert
Scientists have partially reversed blindness in mice using lab-grown retinas made from skin cells...
by Ayala Ochert
Implanting two embryos can reduce IVF success by a quarter if one of the embryos is of poorer quality, new research suggests...
by Ayala Ochert and 1 others
Researchers have successfully treated a woman with colon cancer using her own immune cells to target a cancer-causing gene that had previously been considered 'undruggable'...
by Ayala Ochert
Two women in the Ukraine are pregnant with babies conceived through mitochondrial donation as a treatment for infertility, according to a report in New Scientist...
by Ayala Ochert
Scientists say they have evidence that new eggs can grow in adult ovaries, something that had previously been considered impossible...
by Ayala Ochert
China has opened a national gene bank that could ultimately be the world's biggest, eventually housing 300 million genetic samples...
by Ayala Ochert
Having a single copy of the 'ginger gene' may increase the risk of skin cancer, even among people who don't have red hair, according to a study...
by Ayala Ochert
A roundup of research stories from the annual meeting European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology that hit the headlines this week...
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