never grow old

astridsmith (1)If you had the chance to give your child a life free from death and disease, but it meant you would never get to see her again, would you do it?
 
That’s the premise of my new novelette ‘never grow old’, which is free on Amazon for the next 48 hours. Please share with anyone you think may be interested. Thanks so much everyone!
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Paperback now available

If you prefer paper over eBooks, the paperback version of ‘How to Start a Life Science Company’ is now available. Everyone who buys a paperback copy receives a free copy of the eBook.

HOW TO START A LIFE SCIENCE COMPANY (1)

This comprehensive guide takes first-time entrepreneurs through every step of founding a life science company. It covers all the business basics that we aren’t taught in science and engineering courses.

This book is based on interviews with hundreds of life science entrepreneurs and offers a blueprint of how a clinician, scientist, engineer or student could found a successful life science company. It runs through how to decide whether your science can be commercialized, intellectual property protection, regulatory hurdles, how to find the right co-founders, how and when to incorporate, how to write product development, marketing and business plans, and how to pitch your startup to investors.  Continue reading “Paperback now available” →

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How to Start a Life Science Company

HOW TO START A LIFE SCIENCE COMPANY (1)

A comprehensive guide that takes first-time entrepreneurs through every step of founding a life science company.

Scientists, engineers and healthcare professionals usually have very little business training. Therefore, if you make an exciting new discovery or have a brilliant idea on how to improve patient care, it can be very difficult to know how to turn that discovery or idea into a successful business. Continue reading “How to Start a Life Science Company” →

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fiction: a dream come true

I haven’t slept for days and I’m terrified of falling asleep tonight. It’s my 30th birthday and tonight my dreams, whatever they happen to be, will come true. And I know they will be bad.

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My friend Maggie dreamt her daughter to death. She woke up screaming to find her baby lying on the bedroom floor, dead. Trampled by unseen elephants. Ron’s wife left him, lured away by an imaginary man.

Some people wake up rich. Or beautiful. Or as a man when they used to be a woman. Some people get their wishes. But many more don’t. It all comes down to how well you can control your brain.  Continue reading “fiction: a dream come true” →

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fiction: a matter of time

meteoriteIt was a matter of days now, the astronomers said.  We were on track to pass by Comet Swift-Tuttle but this year there would be no celestial side-stepping and spectacular Perseid meteor shower, no, this year a meteor fragment would hit Earth.

Where would it hit? The question reverberated around the world, whispered in corridors and kitchens, boardrooms and bedrooms.

No one knew.

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fact: the secret to tardigrade super powers

Tardigrades, or water bears, are everywhere. They lurk in your gardens and neighbourhood parks. They live on top of mountains and in deep ocean trenches, in hot springs and underneath ice. All they need is a little moisture.

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They are the world’s great survivors. They can survive living in space, high levels of radiation, extreme temperatures (from -273 °C to almost 100 °C), pressures up to 7.5GPa, or no pressure–they can live in a vacuum.

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five minute sci fi stories

five minute sci fi storiesMy first book, a collection of short stories called ‘five minute sci-fi stories’, is now out on Amazon.

Each story only takes five minutes to read, so you can enjoy them anywhere, anytime.

From genetic lotteries and murderous felines to face transplants and dating your own clone – these bite sized pieces explore how we use our scientific knowledge to change ourselves and the universe around us. I was once a veterinarian and a scientist, so unsurprisingly, they are about science, animals and what it means to be human.

While each story can be enjoyed as a stand alone tale, ‘virtually obsolete’ and ‘russian roulette’ are linked. The last three stories – ‘we’ll all be immortal’, ‘you will never grow old’ and ‘Harnessing DNA for Long-Term Memory Storage’ – are also linked and come from the upcoming novella ‘Immortal Mistakes’.

You can find the book here.

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fiction: the gift of life

In a cold basement underneath a church on a busy inner city street, printers whirred and clanked turning simulated women into flesh and bones, into thoughts and desires – desires for unspeakable things, for acts drawn from the depths of worshippers’ minds. The worshippers would never remember these thoughts. They could not have possibly come from their heads. They were people of God after all, not deviants.

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fact: how cats went from wild animals to internet stars

I like to back up my fiction with some science fact, so here is some new cat science (the best kind).

How did cats go from wild animals to internet stars? A new study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution suggests that kitties held out for as long as they could.

Scientists analysed mitochondrial DNA from the bones and teeth of 200 ancient cat remains found across Europe, Africa and the Middle East trying to understand when cats started taking over the world and snuggling their way into our hearts.

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