Appearing in: The Medicine Myth

“Sometimes the greatest scientific breakthroughs happen because someone ignores the prevailing pessimism.”

Nessa Carey is a groundbreaking British biologist working in the field of molecular biology and biotechnology. She is International Director of the technology transfer organization PraxisUnico and a Visiting Professor at Imperial College London.

Carey published her first popular science book in 2011 and has specialised in introducing the public to the strangest and most important aspects of the latest genetic research.She promotes the movement of scientists between academia and industry, lecturing often to school students and early career scientists.

'Carey shows herself to be a gifted writer that can make this field accessible for readers new to the topic' - The Inquisitive Biologist

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