Charlott Repschlager is a Volunteer Writer at BioNews. She is studying for a PhD at King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, where her research focuses on identifying pathological changes in mouse models of neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis, a rare neurodegenerative disease in children and young adults. Previously, she studied Human and Medical Science at the University of Westminster.
A gene has been identified in mice that allows the differentiation of inner cochlear hair cells in the ear from outer cochlear hair cells...
Cancer cells can form tentacle-like structures to steal energy-producing mitochondria from immune cells, according to new research...
Researchers have identified that variants in genes responsible for DNA packing in the cell, could lead to the development of fibroids...
Obese children and adolescents experience higher levels of genomic instability, potentially increasing the risk of cancer in adulthood, a study has shown...
A targeted breast cancer treatment reduces the risk of BRCA-related cancer returning or spreading after chemotherapy...
Scientists are able to study changes in single DNA molecules of any human tissue with unprecedented accuracy, for the first time...
Stem cell transplants may significantly reduce their chances of relapse in children and young adults with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia who received CAR-T cell therapy...
Breast cancer brain metastases can be targeted with a new approach using stem cells as a delivery system...
Genomic 'dark matter' has been suggested to play a role in the development of pancreatic cancer...
Genes that play a role in cancer's evasion of the immune system have been identified...
