Former BioNews Legal Editor
Jen Willows is a Volunteer Writer at BioNews, and was previously the Legal Editor at BioNews and Projects Officer at the charity that publishes it, PET (the Progress Educational Trust). 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.
A gene variant that affects appetite control could lead to new strategies for treating obesity...
A new epigenomic blood test may distinguish between cancerous and benign ovarian tumours with greater accuracy than current tests...
Fetal cells invade the uterine lining without triggering the maternal immune system, a new cell atlas has shown...
A Swedish court has found a doctor, whose patients died after experimental stem cell-containing tracheas were transplanted, guilty of gross assault and sentenced him to two-and-a-half years in prison...
Croatia has announced plans to import eggs and sperm from the EU, as it does not have enough donors to meet demand...
The number of children a person has may be influenced by their genome, according to an international study...
The Irish government has unveiled plans to recognise the legal parents of children born through overseas surrogacy...
If you are a regular BioNews reader you will have seen that many times we report on exciting findings from genomic studies, only to caveat them with something like 'the data used in this study was all from people of European ancestry, meaning that the results may be less applicable to people from other ethnic backgrounds'...
Polygenic risk scores could help GPs to decide which patients to refer for prostate biopsies...
The largest study of its kind has found no difference in pregnancy rates between intrauterine insemination cycles using fresh or frozen sperm...
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