Yan Lau is a Volunteer Writer at BioNews, having originally joined the publication under the auspices of its writing scheme. She is currently studying for a PhD in Cancer Biology at King's College London. Her research focuses on antigen presentation in high-metastatic risk breast cancer. Previously, she studied Biomedical Science at Oxford Brookes University, followed by a Master's in Cancer at University College London.
Researchers have discovered a potential mechanism underpinning why a person's genome might influence the subtype of breast cancer they develop...
Changing the expression of a specific protein can significantly improve the performance of immune-cell-based cancer therapies, according to two separate studies published in Nature...
Three separate clinical trials of engineered immune cells have reported results for treating glioblastoma, an aggressive and hard-to-treat brain cancer...
A genome-edited pig liver effectively filtered blood in a brain-dead man for three days, showcasing a potential temporary solution for acute liver failure...
Lord Robert Winston, pioneer of IVF, award-winning broadcaster and member of the House of Lords is the subject of the Naked Scientists 'Titans of Science' podcast...
RNA-based vaccines for COVID-19 can be misread by the body, producing harmless off-target proteins, according to new research...
Injecting stem cells into the brains of patients with multiple sclerosis is safe and may stop the disease causing further damage, according to an early-stage clinical trial...
A gene therapy treatment for sickle cell disease has led to a build-up of cells with genetic mutations that make them grow faster, increasing blood-cancer risk, researchers revealed...
A DNA repair pathway has been revealed to be dependent on an enzyme linked with hereditary breast cancer, ovarian cancer, and prostate cancer...
A pioneering two-in-one surgery to remove the ovaries and fallopian tubes during a caesarean section, has been performed on four UK patients with genetic risk variants for ovarian cancer...
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