Dr Francesca Gavins is a Volunteer Writer at BioNews, having originally joined the publication under the auspices of its writing scheme. She is a registered pharmacist, and is working at the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency. She completed her PhD at University College London's School of Pharmacy, under the supervision of Dr Mine Orlu and Professor Abdul Basit. She was part of the Centre for Doctoral Training in Advanced Therapeutics and Nanomedicines, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. Her research explored the effect of food on orally administered tools, using in vivo and in silico tools.
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Male infertility needs improved options for diagnosis and treatment, as well as wider investment in research, social awareness, and education, according to an international consortium...
A blood test taken in the first trimester of pregnancy to measure cell-free DNA methylation can help to predict the risk of preterm pre-eclampsia...
An adeno-associated virus vector-based gene therapy, Hemgenix, has been approved for adults with Haemophilia B by the US Food and Drug Administration...
A national genetic testing service to speed up diagnosis of children and babies in intensive care has been launched as part of the NHS Genomic Medicine Service...
Mechanisms directly linking mitochondrial dysfunction to the shortening of telomeres have been discovered, alongside a novel optogenetic technique, which uses light to restore normal function to the mitochondria...
Older women have a better chance of pregnancy from IVF with previously frozen eggs compared to freshly collected eggs, according to a new study...
A UK court has granted a British couple parental rights to their adult son who was born via surrogacy in California...
Full-term mouse offspring were derived from single unfertilised eggs using targeted CRISPR/Cas9 epigenome editing...
Former head of the Human Genome Project, physician and geneticist, Francis Collins has resigned from his role of the head of the US National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland...
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