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Interview with DIY gene-editing maverick Josiah Zayner for The Guardian

January 5, 2018January 5, 2018 Tom Ireland

Zayner

I interviewed biohacker Josiah Zayner, who recently became one of the first people in the world to conduct DIY gene therapy on himself. Our wide-ranging conversation covered lots of ground, from his own bedroom experiments with poo, to the problems with clinical trials, to humans with tails and the future of us as a species. Read More »

Should we resurrect the wooly mammoth? (BBC World/Sky News appearance)

February 20, 2017February 24, 2017 Tom Ireland

No, of course not. And it probably isn’t going to happen anyway. Read More »

My guide to CRISPR-Cas9 (The Biologist)

AsideFebruary 7, 2016February 11, 2016 Tom Ireland

Everyone is talking about new gene editing tools such as CRISPR-Cas9, which have made it easy and cheap to tweak the genomes of anything from microorganisms to man. But how the hell do you ‘edit’ a genome? 

The Origin of Life in Ten Minutes (BBC Focus)

December 17, 2015January 19, 2016 Tom Ireland

Another tricky commission from monthly science mag BBC Focus: explain how all life started on Earth. Or, how chemistry somehow turned into biology, around 4bn years ago. Part of their ‘Understand…in ten minutes‘ series.

In the shops from the beginning of December.

DNA in ten minutes (BBC Focus)

August 25, 2015October 7, 2015 Tom Ireland

August 2015 //  I was recently given the challenge of explaining DNA in its entirety “in ten minutes” for BBC Focus magazine. Read More »

Should we resurrect the woolly mammoth? (The Biologist)

August 14, 2015September 10, 2015 Tom Ireland

August 2015 // A short comment piece on the scientists looking to resurrect a woolly mammoth by cloning ancient DNA.  Read More »

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