Highlights:

Nuts and bolts: MRI Scanner (Wellcome News, June 2011) [PDF - see p26]
Explanatory article looking at the inner workings of a Magnetic Resonance Imaging scanner.

Beautiful Creatures: Ralph Lainson and his parasites (Wellcome Trust, May 2011)
Long-length feature article looking at the life and work of pioneering parasitologist Ralph Lainson. This was one of a series of 14 stories commissioned to well-known science writers including the Editor of New Scientist and the Science Editor of the Times. The 14 stories were collected in a commemorative book published in celebration of the Wellcome Trust’s 75th anniversary.

Do you have what it takes to be the next Rebecca Skloot? (Guardian.co.uk, April 2011)
I was an invited contributor to this series of guest posts where established science writers offering advice and insights for aspiring writers.

Study offers insight into schizophrenia drug success (Institute of Psychiatry, December 2010)

News story on new insights into how a key schizophrenia drug relieves symptoms of the disease.

Changing fates: Sir John Gurdon (Wellcome News, December 2010)
Interview with the celebrated scientist who kick-started the field of cloning.

TAM London 2010, Guardian Science Weekly Podcast (Guardian.co.uk, October 2010)
Audio reporting from the international Skeptics conference in London with interviews on everything from research into the paranormal activity to evolution.

Comics and medicine (Wellcome News, September 2010)
Feature showcasing how comics and graphic novels are being used to help patients and doctors alike.

Personalising autoimmune disease treatments (Wellcome Trust blog, August 2010)
Describing research that could save patients with severe autoimmune disease from having to take potentially toxic drug treatments for too long.

Antibiotics offer ‘vaccine-like’ immunity to malaria (Wellcome Trust website, July 2010)
News article on a new and novel way to induce immunity against malaria.

Smart drugs, smarter students? (Wellcome Trust blog, May 2010)
Article on a new paper investigating the ethical and moral issues associated with cognitive enhancing drugs.

China and me (Wellcome Collection blog, March 2010)
Reflections on a China symposium from a British-born Chinese.

Genomics: the next generation (Wellcome Trust website, July 2009)
Feature article on new DNA sequencing technologies, how they work and how this is changing genomic research. Includes animations storyboarded by me.

Fatal malaria strain ‘mistaken for more benign form’ (SciDev.Net, January 2008)
News story on how a potentially fatal malaria strain is being mistaken for a more benign form of the disease and doctors must be on alert.

Crazy Kary Mullis (I, Science, June 2006)
Editorial on the unorthodox methods of Kary Mullis, the Nobel-prize winning inventor of Polymerase Chain Reaction.

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