Chrissie Giles studied biochemistry at the University of Leeds. Concluding that clumsiness and practical science do not mix, she completed a Master’s in science communication in 2003 and has been working as a writer and editor ever since. Her editorial career began in a medical communications agency and, via a brief stint in the heady world of motor caravan journalism, she now writes and edits stories on biology and medicine for the Wellcome Trust, and is Editor of Mosaic.
For Mosaic, she has written ‘Breaking bad news’, which looks at the practical, emotional and professional challenges doctors face when telling patients that they are seriously ill. In ‘How we became the heaviest drinkers in a century’, Chrissie trawls her teenage diaries and speaks to alcohol experts to try and understand why she was part of the UK generation that reached ‘Peak Booze’.
Why creating safer catheters and using them more responsibly could slow antibiotic resistance and save lives.
The manufacture and distribution of medicines is a global industry, tainted by fake and substandard medicines.
One bright idea to treat depression is spreading far and wide.
Researchers at one of the UK’s leading genetics centres tell us about their serendipitous findings.
Seventeen years since the first draft of the human genome, research is bringing hope to parents around the world.
Body-focused repetitive behaviours blight many people’s lives.
