Genetic cause for testes developing in people with female chromosomes
A genetic reason for testicular tissue developing in people with female chromosomes has been identified...
Genetics Editor
Dr Joanne Delange is Genetics Editor at BioNews and at the charity that publishes it, the Progress Educational Trust (PET). Together with her fellow BioNews editors Hannah Flynn and 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 genetic reason for testicular tissue developing in people with female chromosomes has been identified...
New research has led to the discovery of an enzyme that can help to reverse the DNA damage associated with ageing and Alzheimer's disease...
UK guidelines have been published to help fertility clinics to prepare to open during the COVID-19 pandemic...
Baroness Nicola Blackwood has been appointed chair of Genomics England...
North-east Essex could be reinstating free IVF treatment on the NHS after a controversial decision to withdraw treatment...
A Harvard University geneticist is developing a dating app that compares a person's DNA and removes matches that would result in passing genetic diseases to their children...
A same-sex couple has given birth to a son from an embryo that was grown in both the women's wombs...
Fertility treatments rather than increased maternal age may alter gene expression in offspring, suggests a study in mice...
On 6 November, eight individuals with varying views debated the morality of genetics on BBC Radio 4's Moral Maze...
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