Australian nurse jailed for illegal Cambodian surrogacy
An Australian nurse has been given a prison sentence after being found guilty of running an illegal surrogacy service in Cambodia...
Legal Editor/Projects Officer
Jen Willows is the Legal Editor at BioNews and Projects Officer at the charity that publishes it, the Progress Educational Trust (PET). Together with her fellow BioNews editors Dr Joanne Delange and Hannah Flynn, she runs the BioNews writing scheme, which provides practical science writing training and experience for PhD students.
Jen originally studied Biology and Microbiology at Imperial College London, and went on to obtain an LLB in Law from Birkbeck University of London and an MA in Medical Ethics and Law from King's College London. She then started working at PET as a Volunteer, and never left. She loves tea and dogs, and she tweets as @jenwillows
by Jen Willows
An Australian nurse has been given a prison sentence after being found guilty of running an illegal surrogacy service in Cambodia...
by Jen Willows
A same-sex French couple have won a partial victory in their fight to be recognised as the legal parents of their child, who was born via surrogate in the US...
by Jen Willows
The Chief Medical Officer of England's annual report has recommended that personalised medicine approaches be adopted widely within the NHS.
by Jen Willows
DNA repair may be reduced in people working at night time, compared with those having a night's sleep, according to new research from the US...
by Jen Willows
The UK Court of Appeal has upheld the High Court's decision that an experimental treatment offered by a US doctor will not benefit ill baby Charlie Gard, and could cause significant pain and distress...
by Jen Willows
A woman whose father has Huntington’s disease has won the right to sue his doctors for negligence, for failing to tell her...
by Jen Willows
Customers of Ancestry's consumer DNA tests may be unaware of what they have signed away, a US lawyer has suggested...
by Jen Willows and 1 others
A new highly sensitive diagnostic system for diseases has been adapted from CRISPR...
by Jen Willows
A decision granting custody of a baby to a surrogate has been upheld by the Court of Appeal...
by Jen Willows
A new method of producing red blood cells outside the body on a large scale has been developed by researchers at the University of Bristol...
BioNews, published by the Progress Educational Trust (PET), provides news and comment on genetics, assisted conception, embryo/stem cell research and related areas.