Dr Lanay Griessner is a Volunteer Writer at BioNews, and is working in the biotech industry in Vienna. She originally studied Biology at Boston College, and went on to obtain a PhD in Molecular Biology from the University of Vienna. There, she conducted research in the fields of infection and systems biology in the Max F Perutz Laboratories, publishing several articles on the common fungal pathogen Candida albicans.
Injecting stem cell-derived cardiac cells after a heart attack may help repair damaged tissue, according to a study published in Nature Biotechnology...
Women using short-acting asthma inhalers took longer to become pregnant than women using long-acting inhaled asthma medications and those without asthma, researchers from the University of Adelaide in Australia, have found...
Germany's Federal Court of Justice has ruled that the a trans woman must be registered as her child's legal father and not its mother.
Women with asthma are more likely to undergo fertility treatment than those without the disease, suggests new research...
The German Parliament has passed the Sperm Donor Registry Act, which will allow children born from 2018 onwards to access their donors' information...
A little-known virus has been found in the uteruses of around half of women with unexplained infertility, a study has found...
Researchers have pinpointed a gene that, if blocked, may stop Zika and other related viruses in their tracks...
Austrian documentary film-maker Maria Arlamovsky journeys around the world, investigating the state of reproductive treatment. Her film asks a single question: how far should we go?
Scientists have used the CRISPR genome-editing technique to remove HIV from the DNA of infected T cells and prevent reinfection...
Recurrent miscarriage could be caused by a lack of resident stem cells in the lining of the womb, according to a study...
