Dr Eleanor Taylor is a Volunteer Writer at BioNews and a Volunteer at the charity that publishes it, the Progress Educational Trust. She obtained an undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences and a PhD in cancer genetics from the University of Oxford. Eleanor worked as a clinical embryologist within the NHS for ten years, both at the Hewitt Fertility Centre in Liverpool and the Assisted Conception Service at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. Since 2019, Eleanor has worked as a genetic counsellor at the Liverpool Women's Hospital, completing her training through the NHS Scientific Training Programme. She is particularly interested in the intersection between fertility treatment and genomic medicine and has a keen interest in preimplantation genetic testing and expanded carrier screening.
Dr Eleanor Taylor reviews a book remembering a seminal lecture that signified the advent of IVF...
This book aims to link medical genetics and the law, and hopes to educate readers in all aspects of genetics that are of current relevance, and to indicate potential problems in the present and in the future. Here is Dr Eleanor Taylor's review of the book...
The second session of the Progress Educational Trust's 2022 annual conference examined how assisted reproduction is practised, funded and regulated in four different European countries: Turkey, Belgium, Germany and Italy...
The fourth session of the Progress Educational Trust's 2021 annual conference explored the dilemmas regulators face when trying to create legislation to safeguard fertility treatment and embryo research...
DNA seems to have a celebrity-like status within the public media sphere. It is used to catch the 'bad guys', resolve paternity disputes and tell you what medical conditions you are predisposed to...
The genome editing capabilities of the CRISPR/Cas9 approach have created an enormous amount of excitement and an equal amount of concern within the scientific community. It is therefore unsurprising that this contentious form of biotechnology has entered the cultural zeitgeist and become a key topic of public interest...
As part of the 'Spotlight on….' series, the MIT Technology Review recently focused their attention on the genome editing 'supertool' CRISPR...
Semen samples can now be accurately analysed up to 52 hours after production using a new mail-in sperm testing kit...
The field of assisted reproduction has evolved at a rapid pace over the past 40 years and fertility patients are now faced with a plethora of treatment options...
Dr Sharon Moalem's most recent book, The Better Half - On the genetic superiority of women, has a rather bold objective and that is to persuade you that woman are genetically superior to men...
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