Simon Hazelwood-Smith is a Volunteer Writer at BioNews, and is currently studying for an MSc in Science and Technology Policy at the University of Sussex. Previously, he studied Biological Sciences at the University of Birmingham, and went on to work at Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital's Molecular Genetics Laboratory and in Dr Michael Simpson's Genomic Medicine Group at King's College London's Division of Genetics and Molecular Medicine.
Paul Knoepfler's TEDx talk covers familiar ground — designer babies, segregation between 'natural' and GM children, unintended side effects, playing god, and eugenics all feature in his dystopian vision of a future involving genetically modified humans...
This book is clearly, if not beautifully, written, and remarkably concise. If you're looking for a 'what's hot in genetics in 2016', it isn't a bad place to start...
A baby boy has been born using sperm collected 48 hours after the fathers' death. The healthy child was conceived through IVF after a lengthy legal process in Australia, following the death of the father in a motorcycle accident in 2011....
This interview started badly for Professor Robert Winston. Within the first four minutes he had branded the concerns of opponents to mitochondrial donation 'trivial', and almost immediately after denied that he had done so...
The world of unregulated sperm donation is revealed as an underground market of desperation, exploitation and remarkable characters.
A study into the 3D structure of the human genome has revealed the locations of DNA 'loops' at unprecedented resolution...
Professor Chris Toumazou had an unconventional route into science. The son of Greek Cypriot parents, as a child he often felt driven to swot up on science in an attempt to prove his smarts to doubting peers...
The first national sperm bank is to be opened in England this October after receiving a £77,000 grant from the Department of Health...
Men who cycle regularly are not more likely to be infertile, an observational study on British cycling habits has found...
The backdrop to the third event in the Progress Educational Trust's 'Breast Cancer: Chances, Choices and Genetics' series was the Myriad Genetics gene patenting legal saga, which came to a conclusion last year with Myriad being denied a patent on the isolated forms of the BRCA genes...
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