PET Science Editor
Jen Willows is the Science Editor at BioNews and at the charity that publishes it, the Progress Educational Trust (PET). Together with her fellow BioNews editor Dr Joanne Delange, she runs the BioNews writing scheme, which provides practical science writing training and experience for PhD students. Jen was previously the Legal Editor at BioNews and Projects Officer at PET. 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, before joining the staff. She loves tea, dogs, and living in London.
Three scientists will share the US$1 million 2018 Kavli prize in Nanoscience 'for the invention of CRISPR-Cas9, a precise nanotool for editing DNA, causing a revolution in biology, agriculture, and medicine'...
A bill has been introduced into the US Senate and House of Representatives, which, if passed, would significantly widen access to fertility treatment.
A German man has been told that he must pay child support for his son, who was born after his ex-wife forged his signature to become pregnant using their frozen embryos...
The strict laws on assisted reproduction in Malta are set to be liberalised in a bill put forward in Parliament this month, although embryo destruction will remain illegal...
The Progress Educational Trust event 'Putting Your Genome to Work: For the NHS, for Industry, for the UK Post-Brexit' took place at Amnesty International in London on 21 March 2018...
A second US fertility clinic has reported a malfunction of a tank used to store frozen eggs and embryos...
A remedial order has been laid before Parliament which, if passed, will give single people the same rights as couples to become the legal parents of their surrogate-born children...
Of Kith and Kin is a play about surrogacy that seems to have very little to say about surrogacy...
A new clinical trial in California marks the first time that genome editing has been used inside the body, rather than on cells such as blood or skin which can be extracted, edited outside the body, and then replaced...
NICE has approved a gene therapy for children with a rare disorder that leaves them with no functioning immune system...
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