Mel Morton

Freelance Writer

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Freelance Portfolio

Within my freelance portfolio you can read articles I have written as a freelance journalist for Ask the Experts, and also a sample gardening column, a book review and a feature article I wrote for the online magazine Only in Winchester.

Testimonial:

Between 2009 and 2011, Mel has written a series of entertaining and intelligent articles on a range of topics for Splendid Fred. Mel is willing and able to adapt her writing style to fit a range of subjects and I have no hesitation in recommending her.

Glenn Fosbraey - Editor, Splendid Fred Magazine.

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Oct242011

Ask the Experts: Babies Stem Cells

Babies diagnosed with a hole in their diaphragm could soon benefit from the research of Dario Fauza, MD and his team who are set to apply to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for permission to run the first human trial using fetal stem cells.

If given the go ahead the trial will take place at the Children’s Hospital Boston, Massachusetts.

That’s where Fauza and team have developed their research during the past decade and successfully tested their “minimally invasive” treatment on large animal models - a trial that involved 27 sheep. To test the effectiveness of the amniotic stem cells some of the sheep received a diaphragm patch with amniotic stem cells and some without. The results were then compared.

Read the full article here.