Julianna Photopoulos is a Volunteer Writer at BioNews and also works at the consultancy StoryCog where she runs the SciCast project, a competition involving short films about practical science and engineering. She is also a freelance writer, and has written for publications including BBC Focus magazine, British Science Association Festival News, Science for Environment Policy and Science in School. Previously, she studied Biology at the University of Crete, and went on to obtain an MRes in Developmental Biology and Genetics from the University of Barcelona and an MSc in Science Communication from the University of the West of England. She tweets as @juliannaphos
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The UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published draft guidance recommending against the use of a new gene therapy for haemophilia B on the NHS...
A sperm donor in Australia has been discovered to have fathered over 60 children, after he donated under four different aliases...
Vision improves in both eyes when gene therapy is administered to only one eye, an international team of researchers has found whilst treating a rare form of blindness...
A new study has concluded that using CRISPR-based genome editing on embryos makes unintended DNA changes that would be passed on to future generations...
A new report from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has identified how fertility treatment is being used in the UK by single patients as well as heterosexual and female same-sex couples...
A novel gene therapy prevents obesity and builds muscle without the need for additional exercise or dieting.
Genome-edited human stem cells from diabetic patients have been shown to successfully reverse diabetes in mice...
Academic and industry researchers led by Professor Jennifer Doudna, a pioneer of CRISPR genome editing, have opened a new COVID-19 testing centre at University of California (UC) Berkeley...
Stem cell therapy has been used in mice to functionally cure diabetes for the first time, as published in the journal Nature Biotechnology...
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