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Dr Lanay Griessner
Dr Lanay Griessner is a Volunteer Writer at BioNews, and is working in the biotech industry in Vienna. She originally studied Biology at Boston College, and went on to obtain a PhD in Molecular Biology from the University of Vienna. There, she conducted research in the fields of infection and systems biology in the Max F Perutz Laboratories, publishing several articles on the common fungal pathogen Candida albicans.
BioNews Review articles written by Dr Lanay Griessner:
| Film Review: Future Baby |
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| 9 May 2016 - by Dr Lanay Griessner |
| Austrian documentary film-maker Maria Arlamovsky journeys around the world, investigating the state of reproductive treatment. Her film asks a single question: how far should we go? |
BioNews News articles written by Dr Lanay Griessner:
| Stem cells repair muscle after heart attack in monkeys |
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| 9 July 2018 - by Dr Lanay Griessner |
| Injecting stem cell-derived cardiac cells after a heart attack may help repair damaged tissue, according to a study published in Nature Biotechnology... [Read More] |
| Short-acting asthma inhalers affect women's fertility |
| 19 February 2018 - by Dr Lanay Griessner |
| Women using short-acting asthma inhalers took longer to become pregnant than women using long-acting inhaled asthma medications and those without asthma, researchers from the University of Adelaide in Australia, have found... [Read More] |
| German court rules that trans woman cannot be child's mother |
| 8 January 2018 - by Dr Lanay Griessner |
| Germany's Federal Court of Justice has ruled that the a trans woman must be registered as her child's legal father and not its mother. |
| Asthma link to increased need for fertility treatment |
| 18 September 2017 - by Dr Lanay Griessner |
| Women with asthma are more likely to undergo fertility treatment than those without the disease, suggests new research... [Read More] |
| German Parliament passes the Sperm Donor Registry Act |
| 30 May 2017 - by Dr Lanay Griessner |
| The German Parliament has passed the Sperm Donor Registry Act, which will allow children born from 2018 onwards to access their donors' information... [Read More] |
| Virus linked to unexplained infertility in women |
| 11 July 2016 - by Dr Lanay Griessner |
| A little-known virus has been found in the uteruses of around half of women with unexplained infertility, a study has found... [Read More] |
| Zika's achilles heel spotted with help from CRISPR |
| 27 June 2016 - by Dr Lanay Griessner |
| Researchers have pinpointed a gene that, if blocked, may stop Zika and other related viruses in their tracks... [Read More] |
| HIV edited out of T cells using CRISPR |
| 4 April 2016 - by Dr Lanay Griessner |
| Scientists have used the CRISPR genome-editing technique to remove HIV from the DNA of infected T cells and prevent reinfection... [Read More] |
| Lack of stem cells in womb linked to recurrent miscarriage |
| 14 March 2016 - by Dr Lanay Griessner |
| Recurrent miscarriage could be caused by a lack of resident stem cells in the lining of the womb, according to a study... [Read More] |
| Mini brains 'could transform drug testing' |
| 22 February 2016 - by Dr Lanay Griessner |
| Miniature brains made out of clusters of human cells could revolutionise high-throughput drug screening, said scientists at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in Washington, DC, earlier this month... [Read More] |