Dr Naomi Moris

🧫Looking for a PhD to start Autumn 2025? We're recruiting! 🧪 The project will focus on using #embryomodels to explore #development & could cover a range of specific questions. Please RT! 🙏 Apply via the portal, and get more details here: crick.ac.uk/careers-study/…

Incredibly proud of Jesús from the lab for this stellar achievement! ☺️ Doing good science is not just done with a pipette, it also involves engaging with the various contextual issues and the wider community as well

Very interesting, and important, set of recommendations from Nuffield. Suggests 'bespoke' regulation of embryo models (not just the same as for embryos), supports the Code of Practice for case-by-case evaluation, but also suggests a 'red line' limit...

Models of human embryos are getting more realistic but still nowhere near the real thing. Ethicists and regulators are scrambling to keep up with advances in the field. Embryo models are “pretty much the hottest topic right now”, says Insoo Hyun. nature.com/articles/d4158…

1/2 A new UK Code of Practice has been developed to support #researchers working with stem cell-based #embryo models.📢 We will consider the Code of Practice within our review exploring the #ethical & regulatory issues raised by research in this area: bit.ly/NB_news_SCBEMc… 🔗

Today, the HFEA has issued a statement in response to Cambridge Reproduction’s newly unveiled SCBEM Code of Practice. You can find our full statement here: bit.ly/HFEA-statement…

The United Kingdom has developed its first rules to guide research using human embryo models go.nature.com/3W9qHWs

New UK voluntary Code of Practice published today, aiming to provide more clarity about how to evaluate stem cell-based embryo models. See piece in the Guardian for a brief explainer amp.theguardian.com/science/articl… (and I learnt a new word too, thanks Sandy @PET_BioNews 😂) @Cam_Repro

💓🧠🦵 Is it beating heart muscles? The first flicker of brain activity? Budding limbs? Scientists at @TheCrick are asking the public at a @RoyalSociety exhibition how far they feel artificial embryos made of stem cells should be allowed to develop: edition.pagesuite.com/popovers/dynam…

The event where the DNA double helix was first shown to the public in 1953, with Rosalind Franklin as the presenter, and Watson, Crick, Wilkins and the others as co-signatories.