Shanya Sivakumaran was previously a Volunteer Writer at BioNews. She is currently studying at the University of Edinburgh's Medical School and she is interested in medical research, especially in the area of genetics. She has also completed an Intercalated Honours in Epidemiology course, where her dissertation focused on genetic pleiotropy.
A man who was paralysed from the chest down has begun to walk again, with the use of a frame, following the transplantation of cells into his spinal cord...
An 'entrance exam' set by the cells that line the womb can determine whether or not human embryos are able to implant into the womb's lining, according to researchers...
Scientists have identified mutations in two genes that cause neonatal diabetes, a rare condition affecting around 1 in 100,000 births...
The Alkaptonuria Society, a UK charity and patient organisation for the rare disease of the same name, has won a £5million grant from the European Commission to help finance clinical trials of a treatment for the condition...
Two UK newspapers have proclaimed the fertility-boosting benefits of the raspberry, with NHS Choices branding the claims 'misleading'...
Leading international healthcare, research, funding, and technology organisations will work together in a non-profit alliance to enable large-scale sharing of genetic data...
A genetic testing programme that will look for nearly 100 cancer risk genes has been launched, in the hope that genetic tests will become routine for cancer patients across the UK....
The Nobel prize won by Francis Crick, a British scientist, for his part in the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, and a handwritten letter recounting this discovery to his 12-year-old son, have been sold for over $8 million this week....
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine in San Francisco, USA, has awarded two multimillion-dollar grants to Cellular Dynamics International in Wisconsin and Coriell Institute for Medical Research in New Jersey to generate and bank iPS cell lines....
Inadequate sleep alters the activity of over 700 genes, scientists report. In the research, sleeping less than six hours per night for just one week impacted genes related to metabolism, inflammation and immunity...
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