Book Review: Avery
The chances were always slim that great art would be born of a multi-partner stakeholder engagement impact initiative, and children's picture book Avery does not beat those odds...
James Brooks was previously Science Editor and then Genetics Editor at BioNews and at the charity that publishes it, the Progress Educational Trust (PET). He is also Assistant Editor of Funding Insight and a reporter covering French news for Research Europe, both published by Research Professional. He began his career in journalism as a reporter for HR Grapevine Magazine, and has written for publications including the Guardian newspaper and the British Medical Journal. Previously, he studied Pharmacology at King 's College London and went on to obtain an MA in Science Journalism from City University London, where he received a commendation for most creative graduate. During his undergraduate degree, he took an extramural year at the Institut Gustave-Roussy cancer research centre, where he researched DNA topoisomerases. Before working in journalism, he spent seven years in Paris working at Euromedica and CTPartners (now part of DHR International), as a headhunter for the pharmaceutical industry.
by James Brooks
The chances were always slim that great art would be born of a multi-partner stakeholder engagement impact initiative, and children's picture book Avery does not beat those odds...
by James Brooks
The authors of a study detailing the rapid expansion of unlicensed stem-cell therapies in the US have called on the FDA to act to stop thousands of patients being used as 'unwitting guinea pigs' for untested treatments...
by James Brooks
A Spanish woman has been allowed to have her dead husband's cryopreserved sperm transported from France to Spain despite a French ban on the exportation of gametes for posthumous insemination...
by Sophie Perry and 1 others
One of the largest-ever genetics studies in the social sciences has found 74 genetic variants that are associated with the amount of time an individual spends in education...
by James Brooks
The UK's first baby resulting from an embryo that was screened using next-generation DNA sequencing has been born in Oxford...
by James Brooks
Primary school children should be given sex and fertility education to help them make informed family-planning choices in later life, fertility specialists in the UK have said...
by James Brooks
Scientists testing whether the CRISPR genome-editing technique could effectively kill HIV in infected cells have found that, while the approach works in most cases, it can also cement the virus's presence...
by James Brooks
Scientists have designed and created a functional, self-replicating cell containing only 473 genes — the smallest genome of any organism to be grown in a lab...
by James Brooks
23andMe, the biomedical wing of the industrial personal-data complex, has produced a board book for toddlers. The End Times draw near...
by James Brooks
The idea that all of us - men and women - are chips off the paternal block has been given some scientific credence by a study in mice...
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