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James Brooks
Science Editor
James Brooks is Science Editor at BioNews and at the charity that publishes it, the Progress Educational Trust (PET). Together with his fellow BioNews editors Antony Blackburn-Starza and Dr Rebecca Hill, and PET's Founding Chair of Trustees Professor Marcus Pembrey, he runs the BioNews internship scheme which provides practical science writing training and experience for PhD students. He is also a freelance journalist specialising in science and health and he has written for the Guardian newspaper and the British Medical Journal, as well as working at Executive Grapevine as a reporter for Grapevine magazine.
Previously, James 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'. He took an extramural year at the Institut Gustave-Roussy, one of the world's leading cancer research institutes and the biggest health centre dedicated to oncology in Europe, where his research focused on DNA topoisomerases. He also spent seven years in Paris working at Euromedica and CTPartners, as a headhunter for the pharmaceutical industry. He has a particular interest in neuroscience and psychiatry, and he blogs at My Last Nerve.
BioNews Comment articles written by James Brooks:
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Newspapers overhype mediocre science all the time - you know this, I know this - but all the same a story in the Sunday Times a couple of weeks ago hit a new low for uncritical reporting...[Read More] |
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The third session of the Progress Educational Trust's annual conference 'The Best Possible Start in Life: The Robust and Responsive Embryo' boasted a redoubtable roll-call of eminent clinicians and researchers as speakers. This being the case, I couldn't help wondering if the decision to limit such luminaries to ten minutes apiece was a wise one...[Read More] |
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BioNews News articles written by James Brooks:
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A gene which helps sperm bind to an egg has been identified by scientists. Sperm-to-egg binding is an essential process during fertilisation and although the preliminary studies were performed on mice, the gene may represent a new target for infertility treatments...[Read More] |
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Genetic mutations that occur spontaneously in sperm and egg cells may increase a child's risk of autism, say scientists...[Read More] |
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Indian-born surrogate twins accorded French civil status despite ban on surrogacy |
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The Court of Appeal in Rennes, France, has upheld an earlier decision to accord civil status – similar to nationality – to twins carried by a surrogate mother in India for a French couple...[Read More] |
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Variations in a single gene may have considerable impact on whether people come across as trustworthy and kind, scientists say. Furthermore, the snap judgments we make about people's kindness after only a brief contact may accurately correspond to whether or not they possess the more 'social' gene variant...[Read More] |
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A $10 million prize is on offer for the first laboratory to accurately and economically sequence the genomes of 100 people over 100 years old. The Archon Genomics X Prize was originally founded in 2006 and has been modified so that entrants will now race to decode the centenarians' DNA...[Read More] |
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Genes that other species do not possess may play a crucial role in making the human brain what it is. Until recently scientific consensus held that the different use of genes shared across most of the animal kingdom gave each species' brain its unique character. However this hypothesis may need some revision following a study led by Professor Manyuan Long of the University of Chicago...[Read More] |
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