Surrogate-born babies stranded in Ukraine during coronavirus lockdown
The COVID-19 pandemic has left parents across the globe whose children have been born through surrogacy in Ukraine across the globe unable to bring their babies home...
Dr Emma Bunting
Dr Emma Bunting was a volunteer writer at BioNews, having originally joined the publication for the writing scheme. She completing a Medical Research Council funded Neuroscience PhD at University College London's Institute of Neurology, where she worked in Professor Sarah Tabrizi's team. Emma obtained her undergraduate degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Bath, with a year's research experience at Harvard Medical School investigating the ageing brain. Her work now explores the role of DNA repair in Huntington's disease, with a specific focus on the mismatch repair.
BioNews Articles by Dr Emma Bunting
Image by Sílvia Ferreira, Cristina Lopo and Eileen Gentleman via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a single human stem cell embedded within a porous hydrogel matrix (false colour).
Human stem cells grown inside mouse embryos
Scientists have developed a method that dramatically increases the production of human stem cells using mouse embryos...
Organoid models suggest COVID-19 virus infects human intestinal cells
New research suggests COVID-19 can infect and multiply within intestinal cells...
Clinical results released from a novel blood-based multicancer test
A new blood test can double the number of cancer cases detected before symptoms develop, when combined with existing screening programmes...