WHO to discuss genome editing while Dr He Jiankui is missing
The World Health Organisation will establish a panel of experts to study the potential uses of genome editing in humans, and to formulate guidelines for use of the technology...
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
The World Health Organisation will establish a panel of experts to study the potential uses of genome editing in humans, and to formulate guidelines for use of the technology...
by Jen Willows
A new paper documents three unrelated families where paternal mitochondrial DNA is present in offspring...
by Eleanor Mackle and 1 others
Canadian researchers have published two new studies using machine learning to improve detection and treatment of cancer...
by Jen Willows
Israel's parliament, the Knesset has rejected a bill to allow single men and gay couples equal access to surrogacy...
by Jen Willows
Clinical commissioning groups in England are setting their own criteria — contrary to official guidelines — to ration access to NHS fertility services, according to campaign group Fertility Fairness...
by Jen Willows
Malta's Embryo Protection (Amendment) Act, which came into effect on 1 October, has widened access to IVF and legalised gamete donation and embryo freezing.
by Jen Willows
At the Royal Society of Edinburgh, on 27 September 2018, the Progress Educational Trust (PET) held its public event 'Modern Surrogacy Needs a Modern Law: How Should We Regulate Surrogacy in the 21st Century?'...
by Jen Willows
A US appeal court judgment in favour of the Broad Institute may mark the close of the long-running dispute over the US patent for the use of CRISPR/Cas9 in animal and plant cells...
by Jen Willows
A study has identified five genes that are associated with an aggressive form of breast cancer...
by Jen Willows
An Ontario Court has awarded a former couple's frozen embryo to the wife, who wishes to use it to try to establish a pregnancy, in the first case to denote an embryo as 'property'...
BioNews, published by the Progress Educational Trust (PET), provides news and comment on genetics, assisted conception, embryo/stem cell research and related areas.