Megan Allyse
Megan Allyse is a Volunteer Writer at BioNews, and a Volunteer at the charity that publishes it, the Progress Educational Trust (PET). She is also a Wellcome Trust supported PhD student at the University of Nottingham's Institute for Science and Society, where her work focuses on comparative political sociology and the role of ethics in political decisions about new science and technologies. She is currently exploring egg donation and somatic cell nuclear transfer research in China, California and the UK. She has contributed a chapter to Communicating Biological Sciences: Ethical and Metaphorical Dimensions (buy this book from Amazon UK or Amazon USA), and she is coauthor of a chapter in Advances In Tissue Engineering (buy this book from Amazon UK or Amazon USA).
BioNews Comment articles written by Megan Allyse:
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The University of California at Berkeley has recently received a great deal of attention for its revised curriculum for incoming first years which will offer students the opportunity to have a DNA sample analyzed for genetic variants...[Read More] |
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Commissioning and providing pre-implantation genetic diagnosis services |
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The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has recently consulted on its 8th Code of Practice, which covered the implementation of the new Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 and thus included the classification of 'serious' genetic conditions for which embryo testing should be licensed; however, HFEA approval of individual...[Read More] |
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BioNews News articles written by Megan Allyse:
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Researchers in Italy and Israel have announced that they have successfully used gene therapy to treat ten children who suffer from a rare form of severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) called ADA-SCID. The trial marks one of the first successful uses of gene therapy since past trials of...[Read More] |
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Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, US, have successfully created a human model for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) by using the induced pluripotency technique (iPS cells) to grow large numbers of affected nerve cells which can be studied in the laboratory. Researchers can now observe the process...[Read More] |
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UK-based research into deriving disease-specific stem-cell lines from human admixed embryos has been given leave to continue after a judge denied a request for judicial review of a decision by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority to license the project. In January of 2008, the HFEA issued...[Read More] |
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Two independent pressure groups are claiming that licenses allowing research into the creation of human admixed embryos are unlawful and that research should be halted immediately. A UK High Court judge heard arguments in London last Wednesday on whether or not to initiate judicial review of the...[Read More] |
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