Dr Özge Özkaya was previously a Volunteer Writer at BioNews. She has a PhD in Developmental Biology from Queen Mary University of London, and an MSc in Molecular Genetics from the University of Leicester. She spent six years working at the University of Leicester as a postdoctoral research associate in behavioural neuroscience - in the laboratories of Professors Flaviano Giorgini and Charalambos Kyriacou and Dr Ezio Rosato - before moving into science communication. She currently works as a Managing Editor for a Texas-based online publication company.
Scientists have discovered a new set of proteins that can block the CRISPR/Cas9 system...
Gene variants coding for the muscle protein titin cause enlarged hearts in healthy individuals, and stress may trigger carriers to develop heart disease, according to a study...
For the first time scientists have quantified the number of mutations caused by the number of cigarettes smoked in a lifetime...
Scientists from China have managed to shrink the size of tumours in mice using CRISPR/Cas9 genome-editing technology...
Chinese researchers say an IVF technique called pronuclear transfer can safely produce a viable pregnancy...
The US Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal by the biotech company Sequenom against a ruling that its prenatal blood test was not patent eligible...
An extensive study examining human embryos created using mitochondrial donation has demonstrated that the technique does not adversely affect embryo development...
A majority of female cancer patients with 'uncertain' fertility status have said they were not given enough information about the risks of infertility resulting from their treatment...
A study of ancient DNA obtained from prehistoric human remains has revealed details about modern humans before farming began, going back to their arrival in Europe around 45,000 years ago...
Scientists have fine tuned the genome-editing tool CRISPR so that it can now edit a single 'letter' of DNA...
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