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’.
You’d be forgiven for thinking that counting the different types of smile would be straightforward. It’s anything but.
Smiling is one of the fundamental ways people communicate, so what happens if your face can’t do it?
Uncovering the truth behind the first man treated with the world’s first antibiotic.
Joanna Moorhead on the decision she made not to have a mastectomy.
Studies of people with narcolepsy are changing the way we understand the influence of chemicals called orexins on sleep, appetite and much more.
Shortly after his 21st birthday, Henry Nicholls began to experience symptoms of narcolepsy, a debilitating disorder that’s plagued him ever since. Sleep research is progressing, so why are he and others like him still waiting for a cure?
