Podcast Review: Naked Genetics — Testing, testing
Dr Kat Arney leads a fascinating and wide-ranging discussion of genetic testing — from testing for cancer genes to whether your child's DNA can predict their future sporting ability...
Matthew Thomas
Matthew Thomas is a Volunteer Writer at BioNews, having originally joined the publication under the auspices of its writing scheme. He is currently studying for a PhD in Evolutionary Anthropology under the supervision of Professor Ruth Mace at University College London (UCL), where his research uses computer simulations and experimental games to explore how, when, and why people cooperate. He previously studied Computer Science at the University of Southampton, and went on to obtain an MSc in Human Evolution and Behaviour from UCL. He has also worked in the charitable sector. He tweets as @matthewgthomas
BioNews Articles by Matthew Thomas
Image by Peter Artymiuk via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts the shadow of a DNA double helix, on a background that shows the fluorescent banding of the output from a DNA sequencing machine.
Little exercise and sedentary lifestyle ages DNA
Older women who take little exercise and live a more sedentary lifestyle have disproportionately older DNA, researchers have found...
Podcast Review: Big Unknowns — can we stop ageing?
Is ageing inevitable, or can it be stopped? The Guardian Science Weekly podcast explored the latest thinking in the science of ageing...
Neanderthal genes are being purged from our DNA
The process of natural selection has removed the majority of Neanderthal DNA from the modern human genome, leaving behind a handful of beneficial genes, two recent studies have suggested...
Video Review: The DNA Journey
A recent viral advertising campaign about the power of genetic ancestry testing tugs at the heart strings. But the science it invokes may not be all it's purported to be...
Radio Review: The Business of Genetic Ancestry
'Genetics is messy and history is foggy. We are a species that is mobile and horny.' That is how Adam Rutherford quite accurately sums up the quest for understanding the human story in his documentary...
Microbiome 'fingerprints' could identify individuals
The communities of microbes living in and on the human body — known as the microbiome — differ enough between people that researchers can use them to tell one person from another in a population of hundreds...
Event Review: Crick Lecture 2014 - 'Genetic control and the mammalian radiation'
You and all the whales, rhinos and bats owe your lives to a tiny shrew...
Australian federal court throws out appeal on gene patenting
Gene sequences isolated from the human body are patentable, according to a ruling by the Australian federal court...
Gene from extinct species allows Tibetans to live at high altitude
Tibetan people inherited a genetic variant from an extinct subspecies of humans that helps them survive on the 'roof of the world'...