Dr Vivienne Raper
Assistant Editor
Dr Vivienne Raper is Assistant Editor of BioNews and at the charity that publishes it, the Progress Educational Trust (PET). She is also a freelance journalist and copywriter specialising in health and science who has been published in the Financial Times, Nursing Times, Science Careers, Biologist, and various local newspapers and specialist biotechnology and pharmaceutical publications. She has an NCTJ preliminary Certificate in Newspaper Journalism and a PhD in imaging and informatics from the University of Bristol. Before going freelance, she worked at De Facto Communications - a healthcare and life science PR agency. She has also interned at Newton's Apple, a non-partisan science policy think tank.
BioNews Comment articles written by Dr Vivienne Raper:
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CORRECTION: Telling is more important than ever by Dr Lucy Frith |
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In Dr Lucy Frith's comment, Dr Jennifer M Speirs' surname is misspelt as 'Spiers' in reference five... [Read More] |
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BioNews News articles written by Dr Vivienne Raper:
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Babies with few teeth on their first birthday are more likely to need corrective dental surgery by age 30, a study has found. The UK and Finnish researchers also discovered ten genetic variants influencing tooth development during a baby's first year...[Read More] |
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Doctors need to be trained in DNA-based medicine, the US scientist who led the Human Genome Project has told a scientific conference...[Read More] |
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A quarter of women trying for a baby have used a fertility spell and 15 per cent thought it worked, according to a Netmums survey...[Read More] |
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Newspaper stories claiming that fertility regulators in the UK have allowed embryos to be destroyed for 'minor disorders' are unrelated to decisions taken at a recent regulatory meeting. Stories last week said the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) had allowed doctors to routinely screen out more than 100 genetic disorders using PGD (preimplantation genetic diagnosis). But, according to HFEA sources, the list of genetic disorders approved for PGD...[Read More] |
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Websites have sprung up offering fresh sperm delivered to your door for DIY insemination by UK women, according to an article in The Obstetrician and Gynaecologist (TOG). UK sperm donor shortages are blamed for creating a market for these 'e-semination' services, which have unclear legal status and are not covered by Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) regulations....[Read More] |
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A 59-year-old British woman who conceived her two-year-old daughter by IVF (in vitro fertilisation) has faced criticism after saying she wants more children. Sue Tollefsen, from Essex, had told makers of a BBC documentary about older mothers to be shown later this month that she was '110 per cent' sure she wanted more treatment....[Read More] |
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India has sequenced its first full human genome becoming the sixth country to do so, according to the Indian Government. The genome of a 52-year-old man from Jharkhand, eastern India, was reportedly sequenced by a top Indian science research body at a cost of $30,000. The breakthrough will help pharmaceutical companies develop drugs better suited to Indian physiology, according to India's Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)....[Read More] |
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Correction: 'Wide variations' in worldwide frozen embryo transfer |
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In BioNews 540 (last week), we reported that 'just 8.3 per cent of IVF (in vitro fertilisation) procedures in Australia and New Zealand use embryos frozen after a previous cycle of IVF'....[Read More] |
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Sports fans in Manchester, UK, will be asked 'Have you got the balls?' to donate sperm by a National Health Service (NHS) promotional campaign....[Read More] |
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Around 8 per cent of human DNA is known to have come from retroviruses. This week, Nature reported scientists have discovered a second virus type can be passed between generations in our DNA...[Read More] |
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