Postdoctoral Researcher at QMUL
Dr Naomi Phillips is a Volunteer Writer at BioNews, having originally joined the publication under the auspices of its writing scheme. Naomi currently works as a postdoctoral researcher at Queen Mary University of London, where she is trying to make adrenal organoids to understand their development. Before this she worked at University College London studying cardiac and sperm development. Her research in developmental biology and stem cells started during her PhD in regenerative medicine at the University of Manchester. This project focused on using stem cells to model human cardiac development. Previously, she completed a BSc in cellular and molecular medicine at the University of Bristol.
Heart function in damaged hearts could be improved using a patch of stem cell derived heart muscle...
Functional mouse induced pluripotent stem cells were generated using genes originating in an ancient unicellular organism and injected into a mouse embryo to create chimeric mice...
New AI technology could improve the speed and accuracy of live sperm analysis, assisting infertility diagnosis and selection of sperm for ICSI...
Human stem cells, of the type that are used for blood stem cell transplants, have been grown in a bioengineered gel designed to mimic the bone marrow...
A father's diet before conception influences the likelihood of their child developing metabolic diseases, including diabetes, due to changes in sperm RNA...
Inactivating a gene that codes for a protein involved in early mouse development results in the formation of two extra hindlimbs in the place of external genitalia...
As stem-cell-based embryo models (SCBEMs) become increasingly complex, they also raise big questions – how do we define a human embryo, and what limits should be placed on SCBEM research?...
Structural changes in a specific protein triggers egg coat hardening after fertilisation, research shows...
Organoids grown from testicular cells of young mice have shown characteristics of normal mouse testes and have potential to produce sperm...
Men with infertility, and their relatives, have been found to be at an increased risk of some cancers, though the specific cancer risk varies greatly...
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