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.
Pregnancy and live birth rates were comparable between women who had received treatment for a form of cancer known as childhood Hodgkin lymphoma, and women who had not...
Preliminary data from the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic showed a drop in the total number of IVF treatments carried out across Europe in 2020 compared to 2019...
Cells in early human embryos are unable to effectively repair the double-stranded DNA breaks made during CRISPR/Cas9-based genome editing...
Over a quarter of women who chose to freeze their eggs in their 30s for non-medical reasons, returned for fertility treatment...
There is no difference in the live birth rate when embryos are transferred on day five or day three, a multi-centre study in the Netherlands has shown...
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...
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority suspended the licence of iTrust Fertility Centre in Eastbourne on 26 January with immediate effect...
Transgender patients and other patients who receive treatment that may impact their fertility, will be able to access fertility preservation funded by the NHS in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire for the first time...
A ban on commercial surrogacy in Russia for foreigners is expected to come into effect in early December 2022...
BMI is not associated with pregnancy rates following transfer of non-aneuploid frozen embryos, according to research presented at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine's 2022 scientific congress...
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