Two-drug approach could offer hope to ovarian cancer patients
A clinical trial combining two cancer therapies has shown promising results in patients with low grade serous ovarian cancer...
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
A clinical trial combining two cancer therapies has shown promising results in patients with low grade serous ovarian cancer...
by Jen Willows
The UK government has announced that the ten-year limit on keeping frozen eggs, sperm and embryos will be scrapped...
by Jen Willows
Offering healthy people genetic screening could provide clinically important information in over 15 percent of cases...
by Jen Willows
Genome editing – it's something we report on almost every week in BioNews in one form or another, and CRISPR has become a media buzzword...
by Jen Willows and 1 others
A knowledge gap may mean that women and girls living with sickle cell disease are not getting the best reproductive healthcare...
by Jen Willows
The World Health Organisation has released new guidelines for the governance of genome editing in humans...
by Jen Willows
A protocol involving two egg collections in the same menstrual cycle may reduce the time to pregnancy for IVF patients who respond poorly to ovarian stimulation...
by Jen Willows
Pre-eclampsia and high blood pressure in pregnancy may be linked to the way the uterus is prepared before frozen embryos are transferred...
by Jen Willows
Children born as a result of fertility treatment are no more likely to develop cancer than naturally-conceived children, according to a new study...
by Jen Willows
Fertility patients who have recovered from COVID-19 have the same chance of conceiving that they did before they were infected, according to a small study...
BioNews, published by the Progress Educational Trust (PET), provides news and comment on genetics, assisted conception, embryo/stem cell research and related areas.