Science Editor
Lynne Smit was previously Science Editor at BioNews and at the charity that publishes it, the Progress Educational Trust (PET). She works for Nature Africa as Senior Editor and has been a science journalist and communicator for more than 20 years, honing her career through roles including Senior Writer at WHO's African headquarters, Editor of Our Genes (Africa Genome Education Institute), and collaborations with academic institutions and the scientific committees of international medical conferences. She regularly mentors science journalists, particularly in Africa. She is past president of the South African Science Journalists' Association and past chair of the South African Freelancers' Association. She is also the author of five college textbooks and the editor of The Architect and the Scaffold, a book on the teaching of evolution in South Africa.
New possibilities for culturing human eggs and sperm in the laboratory have led the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority to consider whether the law in this area should be reviewed...
Women firefighters who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety have lower levels of a hormone associated with the number of healthy eggs in the ovaries, a new study has found...
Preparing follicles for egg retrieval may be most effective when they are sized between 13 and 18mm, a new study has found...
The first live human birth using a novel technology that uses induced pluripotent stem cells to support egg maturation outside the body has been reported...
A New Zealand man who circumvented strict surrogacy laws in Thailand to father a child has been granted permission to adopt his son...
State funded IVF treatment is now available to Danish women wanting a second child...
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