Dr Daniel Grimes was previously a Volunteer Writer at BioNews, and is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University's Department of Molecular Biology. He originally studied at Queen's College at the University Of Oxford, and went on to obtain a DPhil at the Medical Research Council's Mammalian Genetics Unit, where his researched focused on axis specification during embryogenesis.
In one of the first experiments to grow tissue from adult stem cells, scientists have grown corneas in the lab...
A woman in Australia has become pregnant with her own eggs following an ovarian tissue transplant seven years after her ovaries were removed during cancer treatment....
A paper in the journal Stem Cell Reports has reignited debate among a section of the stem cell research community. The study calls into question the existence of a type of cell that, if validated, would have great potential for use in regenerative medicine...
A study on identical twins with distinct autistic traits suggests that epigenetic factors may be important in understanding how the neurological disorder develops...
The source of stem cell-like cells that can give rise to ovarian cancer in mice has been found, reports a study in the journal Nature...
US biotech company Verinata Health has reported sequencing fetal DNA taken from pregnant women's blood to test for genetic abnormalities...
A biotechnology company has come under fire after reporting success of its 'life-saving' stem cell based therapies ahead of a major stock sale, which occurred before investors became aware of news that a patient who had received its treatment had died....
In her new book, 'The Epigenetics Revolution', Nessa Carey argues that we are in the midst of the next great upheaval in biological thinking...
Scientists have discovered that an anti-cancer drug can revive dormant HIV thereby allowing therapies to act upon the low level inactive virus particles that hide in patients' immune cells and have, until now, been unsusceptible to treatment...
Human embryonic stem cells have, for the first time, been used to grow a crucial part of the eye, a paper in Cell Stem Cell reports. It is hoped that in the future transplantation of such tissue could help visually impaired people recover their sight...
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