Author: Professor Sian Harding, 30th September 2019 Tissue engineering for cardiac repair has reached an advanced stage and engineered constructs are starting to be approved for first-in-human trials. This has been driven by positive factors such as the marked improvement…
Author: Dr Linda Popplewell, 25th July 2019 The British Society for Gene Therapy, as BSGCT was originally named, was founded seventeen years ago by a number of pioneers in the field including Prof George Dickson. On 3rd July this year,…
Author: Dr Liam Hurst, 16th July 2019 ‘Where do you get your brains from?!’ Perhaps your parents have said this to you? I bet even Einstein’s mother or Hawking’s father have thought this about them. Being bright can be a…
Author: Dr. Jonathan Appleby, PhD; Chief Scientific Officer, Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult, 14th May 2019. In November 2018, He Jiankui, gave a presentation at the second international summit on Human Genome Editing (1). During the presentation, social media led…
Author: Dr Alan Parker, 25th April 2019 Over the last few years a wave of virus-based therapies has progressed through late stage clinical evaluation and to (or near to) the market place. Therapeutic viruses are now being harnessed to correct…
Author: Alexandra McCarron, PhD student; Cystic Fibrosis Airway Research Group, University of Adelaide, 14th March 2019. Imagine a newborn baby. She looks perfectly healthy on the outside, but on the inside, her DNA contains one simple spelling error that causes…
Author: Subashan Vadibeler, Undergraduate Student; University of Malaya, 22nd February 2019 The very thought of an injury is enough to send chills running down the spine of those involved in sports. And we know exactly why this fear exists because…
Author: Beth MacLeod, Undergraduate Student; University of Dundee, 1st February 2019 We all have a universe inside our head. A hundred billion neurons making connections with one another, constantly firing and passing messages from our brain, down the spinal cord,…
Author: Helena Meyer-Berg; DPhil Student; University of Oxford I want to find a treatment for a disease. The disease is inevitably fatal within the first months of life, but it is rare. It only affects one in one million live…