Clive Cookson

The exposome is emerging as a key concept in biology. It complements the genome by measuring the effect of all environmental exposures you experience from conception to death. To get a flavour, watch me talking to 3 experts at the recent AAAS in Phoenix youtube.com/watch?v=HI6Iwh…

Europe and China are launching a joint space mission to study how Earth’s magnetic field shields the planet from harmful solar radiation, a rare example of collaboration as space competition intensifies. Read the full story here: ft.trib.al/B7kRscm

Ag tech giant Syngenta is to build a $120mn crop bioscience centre in the UK -- in contrast to drug companies pulling R&D investments from the country because they dislike the government's pharma policies ft.com/content/462642… via @ft

Looking beyond Darwin at the Future of Species. An excellent book by @AdrianWoolfson on the potential of synthetic biology to rewrite life ft.com/content/084b4b… via @ft

I'm not confident that Nasa will return astronauts to the moon before China gets there, even after rejigging and accelerating its Artemis program ft.com/content/3c7f67… via @ft

Beijing backs brain implant push to rival Elon Musk’s Neuralink ft.trib.al/UJ2h66R

Back from @AAAS in Phoenix where scientists expressed relief at avoiding the sharpest funding cuts proposed by Trump - but lamented the other damaging effects of the administration's attempts to skew US research in their political direction ft.com/content/ebb4a8… via @ft

European scientists build Earth’s ‘digital twin’ to sharpen weather and climate forecasts. ft.com/content/da4666… via @ft

a milestone moment for ESA - the begining of a new role? European nations to fund military-grade surveillance network in space ft.com/content/4d61c6… via @ft

A tide of fabricated research risks scientific integrity. Powerful OpEd by Bernhard Sabel. ft.com/content/a1c675… via @ft

The most recent AMR surveillance charts the continued rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs ft.com/content/ae1dcc… via @ft

The latest in our series about longevity companies. A sisterly enterprise seeking to stop unwanted cell death. @LinkGevity ft.com/content/72f5be… via @ft

Scientists detail Delphi-2M, an AI model trained on large-scale health records that can predict susceptibility to over 1,000 diseases decades into the future (@clivecookson / Financial Times) ft.com/content/598e07… #a250917p37" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/250917/p37#a25…

Gut guru Tim Spector moves on from popularising the human microbiome -- trillions of beneficial bacteria in our intestines -- to urge us to add a further multitude of microbes by making and eating as much fermented food as we can @timspector ft.com/content/25aa59… via @ft

Important new real-world evidence that AI may harm performance. @clivecookson @FT on.ft.com/3Jdskyj Routine AI assistance hits skills of health experts performing colonoscopies

Experts warn the materials were causing extensive disease ‘at every stage’ of human life, ahead of UN talks on a global plastics treaty on.ft.com/3IWVykS

@natashaloder @absw @FT Thanks Natasha. Well done to you too for your audio prize. Sorry you weren’t there for mutual congratulations

@absw @clivecookson @FT Well done Clive!

🏆#ABSWawards 2025 🎉Lifetime Achievement Award🎉 Clive Cookson, Financial Times @clivecookson @FT 👏👏👏Congratulations!!! Clive Cookson became FT senior science writer in October 2023, after more than 30 years as science editor.

A million thanks ABSW. Too emotional to say much more now than ‘what an honour’

Organ ageing research shows that the brain is 'the guardian of longevity' ft.com/content/06e6f3… via @ft

@karamnama2 This comes from Darling's book (page 20), not my personal research. What is the error?

You have made a serious historical error in this paragraph: The intervals and scales used in modern Western music were already in use in ancient Mesopotamia, a region comprising modern-day #Iraq, Kuwait (.....), #Turkey, and #Syria