Blind man regains partial vision after optogenetic therapy
A new type of gene therapy has helped a man regain some vision after 40 years...
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 new type of gene therapy has helped a man regain some vision after 40 years...
by Jen Willows
The Millennium Technology Prize has been awarded to UK researchers who developed a widely used approach to genome sequencing...
by Jen Willows
Julia Chain has been appointed as the new chair of the UK's fertility regulator, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority...
by Jen Willows
A new research paper warns that COVID-19 can affect men's sperm, but it may not be that simple…
by Purvi Shah and 1 others
US researchers have discovered a gene that may play an influential role in food cravings and motivation to exercise...
by Jen Willows
Even a small increase in temperature during sperm production can amplify DNA damage, new research suggests...
by Jen Willows
A Scottish court has ruled in favour of a woman who wants to use her deceased husband's sperm for IVF...
by Jen Willows
US scientists have developed a method of making precise edits to mitochondrial DNA within living cells...
by Jen Willows
A UK woman has won her case in the UK Supreme Court against an NHS hospital for the cost of surrogacy in California...
by Jen Willows
A UK woman who sued her father's doctors because they did not inform her of her risk of Huntington's disease has lost her case...
BioNews, published by the Progress Educational Trust (PET), provides news and comment on genetics, assisted conception, embryo/stem cell research and related areas.