Recent writings
Some recent writing of mine in non-obvious places includes...Much of the last five or six editions of the Wellcome Trust's excellent Big Picture for schools. Find the latest ones here
Text for the British Council's exhibition to mark Darwin Year, which was mounted in over 50 countries. The whole thing is republished as a booklet, which you can get from here. (PDF file)
My essay on why some people (apparently) want to live forever appears in Demos' rather good collection on human enhancement, Better Humans, and may be downloaded from them here
Regular feature articles on molecular biology for Wellcome
Science, now suspended but archived on the web here. There is something of mine in most issues.
A recent article describing the results
of the ESRC's Innovative Health Technologies Programme is here (scroll down to bottom of the page for the PDF)
I also review fairly regularly for The Independent and for my one time employer The THES, or THE as it now wants to be known. The new title has been marked by making their website free and searchable, and it tells me I have written 60 odd reviews for them since 1994.There are also older pieces of mine in the Guardian and New Scientist book review archives.