Tom Ireland

Tom Ireland is a freelance science journalist, and editor of The Biologist, the bi-monthly magazine of the Royal Society of Biology.

Recent articles by Tom Ireland

Forbidden medicine: what do we do when medical breakthrough are unethical? © Getty Images

Forbidden medicine What do we do when medical breakthroughs are unethical?

miracle-microbes

Miracle microbes 7 types of bacteria fuelling our future

In cold blood - how therapeutic hypothermia can save lives

In cold blood: how therapeutic hypothermia can save lives

Currently, animals are farmed for their meat (L) but a bioreactor (R) provides ideal conditions in which to grow muscle cells to create cultured meat © Getty Images

Future Technology

The artificial meat factory – the science of your synthetic supper

Bacteria controls the weather © Scott Balmer

Bacteria controls the weather

Legal highs: could a psychedelic trip soon be available on prescription? © Getty Images

Could legal highs soon be available on prescription?

Cancer cell and T cell © Getty Images

Is a cancer vaccine on the horizon?

Medicine gets personal © Tang Yau Hoong

Why personalised medicine is coming, and how it’s going to help us beat disease

What is DNA? © iStock

What is DNA?