Former BioNews Science Editor
Hannah Flynn is a Volunteer Writer at BioNews, and was previously the Science Editor at BioNews and at the charity that publishes it, the Progress Educational Trust (PET). She also works for Medical News Today as a fact checker, and for the NHS campaign Keep Our NHS Public. She has worked as a reporter for Chemist+Druggist and the Nursing Standard, covering policy and clinical news. Bylines include various trade publications as well as Vice, Ars Technica, TES and the Guardian. She has also worked with charities and non-profit organisations including the Royal National Institute of Blind People, the Children's Society, the Institute of Physics and the National Council for Voluntary Organisations. She originally studied Biology at the University of Manchester, and went on to study journalism at Cardiff University.
Exposure to higher levels of particulate matter, in the weeks and months leading up to oocyte retrieval, is linked to lower live birth rate among fertility patients...
Surrogates experience higher levels of complications during and after pregnancy compared to other IVF patients, a non-peer reviewed cohort study in Canada has shown...
Women undergoing IVF using donor eggs had a higher biochemical pregnancy rate after using a new drug designed to act directly on the endometrium in the uterus...
The Ulster Unionist Party's manifesto pledge to 'provide fertility services accessible to all without discrimination', has come under fire from a co-founder of LGB Alliance...
Researchers have discovered a potential mechanism underpinning why a person's genome might influence the subtype of breast cancer they develop...
People with haemophilia and their families are due to receive part of a £10 billion package offered as compensation for the infected blood scandal in the UK...
Placenta organoids created from cultured human placenta cells have been used to shed light on several types of infection in early pregnancy...
Homerton Fertility Centre in London has had its licence suspended by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority because of 'significant concerns about the clinic'...
Guy's and St Thomas' Assisted Conception Unit, London, is the subject of an investigation by the HFEA into delays in informing women that their frozen eggs and embryos could be affected by a manufacturing error...
The pope has called for the 'international community to prohibit' surrogacy, and said it violates the dignity of the woman and child and leads to the exploitation of poor women...
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