PET Genetics Editor
Dr Joanne Delange is the Genetics Editor at BioNews and at the charity that publishes it, the Progress Educational Trust (PET). Together with her fellow BioNews editor Jen Willows, she runs the BioNews writing scheme, which provides practical science writing training and experience for PhD students. She also writes for Nutritional Insight, an elite evidence-based nutritional and biomedical writing and consultancy service. She has more than 15 years' experience of online publishing in fast-moving scientific environments, writing articles on current research and out-licensing opportunities.
Joanne's work has assisted in forming collaborative partnerships between research and industry worldwide, ascertaining the commercial applications of research and the relevance of research to disease and to drug discovery. She originally studied biochemistry and pharmacology at the University of Southampton, where she undertook laboratory research into the role of growth factors and cytokines in tumour biology, studying the role of PTHrP and EGF in breast cancer cell lines. There, she went on to obtain a PhD in Biochemistry, researching retroviral proteases and in particular the proteases from the Hepatitis C and HIV-1 viruses
A stem-cell therapy usually used to treat blood cancer has been shown to be effective at slowing progression of multiple sclerosis symptoms...
The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to Professor Katalin Karikó and Professor Drew Weissman for their discoveries relating to nucleoside base modifications, which contributed to the development of mRNA vaccines...
Key gene variants linked to running success have been identified in a small study on previously untrained participants...
DNA, Children and Young People's Health Resource is the world's first national research programme aimed at furthering understanding of how children's genes determine their physical and mental health...
Two potential new treatments for Alzheimer's disease using the CRISPR genome editing approach have been reported at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands...
An embryo model that has been created from human pluripotent stem cells, without using eggs or sperm, shows how tissues of the developing embryo interact...
Scientists have reportedly created an embryo model from human stem cells with a heartbeat and traces of blood; features that typically appear in an embryo proper during the third or fourth week of pregnancy...
Scientists have created embryo models from human stem cells and cultivated them to a stage beyond the equivalent of 14 days of development for an actual embryo, sparking ethical discussion...
A novel CRISPR-based gene therapy has been shown to reduce the level of antibiotic resistant E. coli within the gastrointestinal tract...
Rosalind Franklin's contribution to the discovery of the structure of DNA was comparable to that of James Watson and Francis Crick, according to an unpublished news article and overlooked letter...
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