Dr Gabrielle Samuel
Dr Gabrielle Samuel is a Volunteer Writer at BioNews, and a Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London's Centre for Biomedicine and Society. She was formerly Genetics Editor at BioNews and at the charity that publishes it, the Progress Educational Trust (PET). She originally studied Biochemistry at the University of Birmingham, and went on to obtain a PhD in Molecular Genetics at the University of Adelaide. She then worked at the University of Sydney's Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, initially under the auspices of a scholarship from the Australian Bone Marrow Donor Registry, then in research and postdoctoral posts awarded by the Australian Government's National Health and Medical Research Council.
BioNews Comment articles written by Dr Gabrielle Samuel:
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As an ex-genetic researcher I was incredibly excited to hear in last week's news that researchers at the J Craig Venter Institute, US, have successfully constructed the first self-replicating, synthetic bacterial cell....[Read More] |
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BioNews Review articles written by Dr Gabrielle Samuel:
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From watching the trailers for Splice, I thought the film centred on a genetic engineering experiment gone awry - mutants taking over the world and so on. Sadly not. At least if it had, it would be based on a storyline which - although tiresome - is proven to work. Not only that, but this horror of a horror film was far from scary...[Read More] |
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Event Review: Francis Galton and Francis Crick - Cases of Mistaken Identity? |
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This small session, convened in the Wellcome Trust's Library last Wednesday, was the tale of two Francis's. The discussion highlighted the lives of, and drew on the similarities between, Francis Galton - who coined the term eugenics - and Francis Crick - who determined the structure of DNA with James Watson...[Read More] |
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'IVF doctors to raffle human egg' ran the Sunday Times headline on 14 March 2010. A seminar sponsored by an American clinic took place in London at which a human egg and a cycle of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment was awarded to one couple who attended...[Read More] |
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Extraordinary Measures is the story of the desperation of a father to find a drug to prolong the lives of his sick children, Megan and Patrick, who both have an incurable genetic condition with a life expectancy of nine years of age....[Read More] |
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Can you identify yourself? How? By your name, sex, religion, by what you do, or the relationships you form? These are the types of unenviable and arguably unanswerable questions the Wellcome Trust asks in its current Exhibition 8 Rooms, 9 Lives. The exhibition does not set out to answer questions about identity (and with good reason). However, wandering through the myriad of rooms the exhibition displays, through a series of individual life stories, brings to life at least some of the |
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BioNews News articles written by Dr Gabrielle Samuel:
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| 21 November 2011 - by |
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There was a six percent rise last year in the number of fertility treatments carried out in the UK, according to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA)...[Read More] |
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New research has shown that socio-economic status plays a bigger role in a child's development than whether that child was born after a planned pregnancy...[Read More] |
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A group of British and Danish scientists has identified a new strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), which has been found in cows and their milk. The new strain is also known to have infected 27 people in the UK and 24 in Denmark...[Read More] |
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Researchers in Japan have successfully grown sperm for the first time in a study that could eventually help preserve the fertility of cancer patients and help infertile men have children....[Read More] |
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Researchers have developed a calculator that they claim can be used to provide people who are having fertility problems with an assessment of the likelihood of having a successful outcome following IVF...[Read More] |
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More than 200 patients' lives could be saved each year following recommendations published in a new report, focusing on improving the availability and quality of stem cell transplants in the UK...[Read More] |
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First major study of comprehensive genetic screening technique |
| 25 October 2010 - by |
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The first formal clinical study of a test that screens an eggs for chromosomal abnormalities - the main cause of non-viable embryos during IVF - has been conducted. This may help pave the way for women with a history of IVF failure to achieve successful pregnancies...[Read More] |
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£20 million study comparing the epigenetics of twins launched |
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Scientists from the UK and China are collaborating to study epigenetic signatures that mark the differences between 5,000 twins. Those affected by diabetics and osteoporosis are just some of the people who could be set to benefit from the £20 million 'Epitwin' project....[Read More] |
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Women could soon find out how long they have left to start a family thanks to a blood test that determines when they will go through menopause....[Read More] |
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A new US study has found a gene mutation that can increase the risk of developing blood clots in breast cancer patients undergoing treatment with the drug tamoxifen....[Read More] |
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