The ethics of preimplantation genetic testing using polygenic scores
Academics from Oxford University discuss the ethics surrounding preimplantation genetic screening tests, including the use of polygenic risk scores...
Dr Gabby Samuel
Lecturer in Environmental Justice and Health
Dr Gabby Samuel is a Lecturer in Environmental Justice and Health in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at King's College London. Her main research interests relate to the ethical, social, and regulatory issues associated innovative biotechnologies, including biobanking, genomics and genetic technologies, and AI health technologies.
BioNews Articles by Dr Gabby Samuel
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).
Insulin-producing cells created by cloning
Researchers have transformed embryonic stem cells from a diabetic woman into insulin-producing beta cells, a study in Nature reports...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
Mapping DNA of egg cells could boost IVF success
Researchers in China have developed a new non-invasive method for detecting genetic defects in IVF embryos that could improve the chances of successful IVF for some patients...
Hype, hope and headlines
This event was designed to promote debate about how and when fertility research should be reported in the media, and to ask the question 'where does the responsibility lie to ensure that such reporting is not hyped?' And that it did...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
Study sparks debate: should embryo cryopreservation be routine in IVF?
Women who undergo fertility treatment using cryopreserved embryos may have healthier babies and fewer complications than those who use 'fresh' embryos, a study suggests....
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
IVF single embryo transfers have better chance of survival
Single embryo transfer reduces the risk of death within a month of birth for babies conceived via IVF, according to an Australian study...
Image by Peter Artymiuk via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts the shadow of a DNA double helix, on a background that shows the fluorescent banding of the output from a DNA sequencing machine.
TV Review: Horizon: Horizon - The Truth about Fat
Last week's Horizon on BBC2, 'The truth about fat', follows surgeon Gabriel Weston as she looks at the latest research exploring why so many people are clinically obese...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
IVF treatment rises six percent in a year
There was a six percent rise last year in the number of fertility treatments carried out in the UK, according to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA)...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
Social class behind brainy IVF babies
New research has shown that socio-economic status plays a bigger role in a child's development than whether that child was born after a planned pregnancy...
Image by Peter Artymiuk via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts the shadow of a DNA double helix, on a background that shows the fluorescent banding of the output from a DNA sequencing machine.
New MRSA strain not picked up by current genetic tests
A group of British and Danish scientists has identified a new strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), which has been found in cows and their milk. The new strain is also known to have infected 27 people in the UK and 24 in Denmark...
