Dr George Janes is a Volunteer Writer at BioNews. He obtained his PhD in the field of developmental biology, with his thesis focussing on the developmental responses of plant roots to mineral deficiency stress. He went on to postdoctoral positions at the University of Nottingham (where he studied the role of plant hormones in root growth) and at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (where he studied vascular development in plant roots).
New regulations in sperm donation are being implemented by Belgium's Federal Agency for Medicines and Health Products, following revelations regarding the use of sperm carrying a cancer-causing mutation, and widespread breaches of donor limits...
A heart attack patient has become the first person to be treated in a clinical trial of an experimental gene therapy, which aims to strengthen blood vessels after coronary bypass surgery...
Sperm from a donor who was unknowingly carrying a cancer-causing mutation has been used to conceive at least 197 children across Europe...
The number of incidents reported by UK fertility clinics increased last year but remain low, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority reports...
Side effects of viral-delivered gene therapies have been elucidated using human stem-cell derived kidney organoids...
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Private health providers across the UK will offer a genome-wide genomic test to assess long-term health risks...
Electrical gradients within developing embryos have been shown to control the directional migration of cell populations...
Genetic and molecular changes occurring during ovarian ageing have been mapped to single-cell resolution...
Alcohol's effect on sperm DNA has been shown to persist for at least one month after stopping exposure, in mice...
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