Emma Lamb is a Volunteer Writer at BioNews. She is currently studying for an intensive masters in public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The focus of her masters is currently on environmental health and policy intervention, which she is studying while on career break from the UK Civil Service where she worked in various policy roles over the last six years, from research and innovation policy to food safety and most recently support for low carbon fuels. Emma's undergraduate degree was completed at Durham University in Biomedical Sciences, with a year spent studying chemistry.
Political and legislative action needs to be taken to reduce the impact of environmental factors on reproductive health, according to the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE), which has published eight recommendations...
A long-running project has provided diagnoses for over 5000 children with rare developmental conditions and has identified 60 new genetic disorders...
Over 60 genes linked to Parkinson's disease have been identified using a new multidisciplinary approach...
A new rapid test can detect missing or extra chromosomes as part of prenatal and fertility care...
The largest study to date into unexplained infertility in men has been conducted by UK and Estonian researchers...
The body's response to infection by SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) varies across different cell types, according to a new study...
Chromosome ends are protected differently in stem cells compared to adult cells...
Scientists have identified the gene that senses pressure in the bladder and plays a key part in signalling the need to urinate...
A newly discovered mechanism explains why pregnancies last longer in some species than others...
Errors in the genetic material of embryonic cells following IVF are more common and less damaging in normal human development than previously thought...
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