What does a scientist look like?
You don’t look like a scientist.
Have you ever been told this? I get it quite often. Sometimes from children, but also from adults. Occasionally, if I feel like turning that comment into a discussion, I ask:
How so?
They would hesitate, tilt their head, and make a careful comment about my outfit or my hair.
And you are a girl. Continue reading
Sally Chappell was Nottingham’s official Maid Marian, a role she combined with lecturing in human molecular genetics at the city’s university (she arrived there in 1998 as a PhD student), mother to Scarlett, aged three, and, since 2015, married to Tim Pollard, Nottingham’s official Robin Hood.
{credit}Tim Pollard{/credit}
Last month a paper she co-authored was published in Nature Genetics. The InterPregGen study showed for the first time that some features in a baby’s DNA can increase the risk of its mother developing pre-eclampsia.
The paper appeared on 19 June, and was widely covered in the scientific press, including ScienceDaily, GenomeWeb, ScienceNews, and Bionews. Continue reading