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Dr Hannah Somers

Dr Hannah Somers is a volunteer writer at BioNews. She obtained her PhD in Molecular Microbiology, in the laboratory of Professor Liz Sockett at Nottingham University. She researches the predatory bacterium Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus, working towards understanding how this organism invades other bacterial species and characterising some of its genes. She previously studied Medical Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, and has worked in education. She tweets as @therealmamabear

BioNews Articles by Dr Hannah Somers

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).
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-coloured cryogenic scanning electron micrograph).
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5 June 2020 • 2 minutes read

Stem cells make human hair grow on mice

by Dr Hannah Somers

Scientists in the USA have developed a system to induce hair growth on skin-like structures grafted on to mice...

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.
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 sequencing output from an automated DNA sequencing machine.
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28 February 2020 • 2 minutes read

Retinal gene therapy trial shows positive result

by Dr Hannah Somers

A clinical trial using gene therapy for treating a common cause of genetic blindness published positive results in Nature Medicine...