Dr Jamie Heather is a Volunteer Writer at BioNews, having originally joined the publication under the auspices of its writing scheme. He is currently a Research Fellow in the Cancer Center at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, still studying T cells and their applications in cancer and beyond. He tweets as @jamimmunology .
A genome editing technique that allows researchers to test thousands of different mutations that might affect how cancer cells behave has been developed...
Our immune system can use antibodies recognising fragments of ancient viruses to help fight lung cancer, according to a study by researchers in London...
A new machine learning tool has been developed to help measure the efficiency of a specific type of genome editing, and identify what affects the rate of insertion of a genetic sequence...
A 13-year old girl has received the first ever 'base-editing' therapy, in which cells were genetically modified to fight her otherwise incurable leukaemia...
CRISPR-based genome editing has been used to make an 'off-the-shelf' cellular therapy for children with treatment-resistant leukaemia, marking an important step forward in the development of 'universal' genetically-altered treatments...
Having two gene variants, known to be more common in people with African ancestry and predispose individuals to kidney disease, doubles risk of severe kidney injury and death in people with COVID-19...
More than 150 researchers have backed a letter written by senior scientists protesting the move to close one of the UK’s leading mouse-genetics centres at the Harwell Institute in Oxfordshire...
Two research groups have, for the first time, used genome editing to successfully treat mitochondrial disease in animals...
Australian researchers have developed a new kind of anti-cancer drug, which halted cancer cells in their tracks in mice...
Genealogy service MyHeritage has revealed that some of their user account data has been hacked...
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