Holly Rogers was previously a Volunteer Writer at BioNews, and is Communications Officer at the Academy of Medical Sciences. She is also Head of Events at Science Brainwaves (part of the British Science Association), which she cofounded alongside Dr Rebecca Hill. She originally studied Chemistry at the University of Sheffield, where she went on to acquire a MSc in Science Communication. She tweets as @cassiopeia789
For the first time, scientists have created induced pluripotent stem cells from adult tissue without adding extra genes...
A beginner's tour guide through genetics and epigenetics, this booklet covers much of the fundamental biology behind genetic illness and gives a broad overview of some of the biggest challenges currently faced by researchers in the field. It does not assume any previous knowledge, and gives clear, concise summaries of key historical figures and theories, including a very useful glossary at the back....
The US biotechnology company Amgen will buy deCODE Genetics, which provides products and services for genome analysis, for $415 million...
A preliminary study from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA, suggests that environmental pollutants including industrial chemicals and pesticides may be impairing human fertility, despite being banned more than thirty years ago....
Scientists have restored the sense of smell in mice using a gene therapy designed to repair the cilia - hair-like formations on nasal cells that are important in olfaction...
An outbreak of a drug-resistant bacterial bug, which killed six people and infected 11 more, was stopped partially thanks to genome sequencing, a paper in Science Translational Medicine reports...
A genetic variation could explain why a previously promising class of drugs do not work as multiple sclerosis treatments despite being used successfully in other autoimmune diseases...
A single dose of an 'antisense' drug has been shown to slow, or even partially reverse, Huntington's disease in animal studies, according to a study published in Neuron....
Stem cells will be harvested and stored at an umbilical cord donor centre at the Birmingham Women's Hospital, UK, according to a BBC report...
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