Sam Sherratt was a Volunteer Writer at BioNews, having originally joined the publication under the auspices of its writing scheme. He completed his PhD at University College London, where he researched the interaction between the human innate immune system and malaria. He previously obtained an MSc in Microbiology and Immunology from the University of Nottingham, and he has a particular interest in the immune system and infectious diseases.
Sons whose mothers experienced high levels of stress during their first 18 weeks of pregnancy may have reduced fertility when they become adults...
A Native American man in Montana has the 'oldest' human DNA in the United States, according to news reports...
The World Health Organization is convening an 18-member committee of scientific experts from around the globe next month with the goal of developing international standards for the oversight of human genome editing...
Last November, Dr He Jiankui, a former associate professor of the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzen, China, made the announcement that he had created the first ever genome edited human children by using CRISPR to create mutations de
The largest genetic analysis of China's population to date has been carried out on over 140,000 pregnant women, revealing new insights into migration patterns and disease risk in Chinese people...
Women who freeze their eggs for social reasons need to be better informed about the potential difficulties of the process, experts from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists have warned...
CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing may cause greater genetic damage to cells than previously believed, according to a new study...
Police in Cambodia have discovered 33 pregnant women who were working as part of an illegal surrogacy operation in Phnom Penh...
The US Patent and Trademark Office has decided to grant two new CRISPR patents to the University of California, Berkeley...
After three years of intense legal battles over the patent rights to CRISPR genome editing technology, lawyers for the University of California Berkeley and the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts faced off in court again...
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