Dr Maria Botcharova is a Volunteer Writer at BioNews, having originally joined the publication under the auspices of its writing scheme. Her PhD in Neuroscience at University College London's Institute of Neurology tried to make sense of the firing patterns of neurons and concluded in 2014. Since then, Maria was a business strategy consultant for pharmaceutical, healthcare and medical companies and currently leads a data analytics team at publishing company, Elsevier. She has written about wrinkly fingers and zorb balls and interviewed Sir Roger Bannister (about both running and neuroscience) for the Guardian. She takes a keen interest in science, having written and edited for a number of student and non-profit publications.
Fertility patients offered paternity testing after a former fertility doctor was discovered to have used his own sperm to treat a patient, have spoken out about the conundrum they face...
Children of individuals with infertility have a slightly higher risk of developing autism, a study of almost 1.4 million children has shown...
Australia saw the birth of its first baby conceived via capacitation in-vitro maturation or CAPA-IVM treatment last week...
A US man has received the second-ever transplant of a pig heart...
Two separate research groups reported the successful transplantation of a pig kidney into a human, after it had been genetically modified to prevent the body from rejecting it...
Having one or two APOE-ε4 alleles, a genetic variant associated with increased risk of Alzheimer's and cardiovascular disease, has been linked to a larger number of offspring in women in Bolivia...
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the first gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy...
Many NHS GPs in England do not have an accurate understanding of the NICE Fertility Guideline, local funding or eligibility for referral for specialist consultation, research commissioned by the Progress Educational Trust (PET) has shown...
A genetic link between unexplained infertility and diseases such as cancer, heart disease and Parkinson's disease in women has been discovered...
The Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Integrated Care Board has proposed a single policy for access to NHS-funded fertility treatment for the area, that will see access for some residents reduced...
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