Liam Drew

Absolutely delighted to have scooped this year’s gong for cancer research reporting.

At our awards ceremony next week we will find out our winners but until then we will continue to celebrate the finalists! Shortlisted for the Gordon McVie Award for Reporting Cancer Research are @liamdrew.bsky.social @rosietaylorjourno.bsky.social and Clare Wilson 👏

Don’t stop believin’, not even while you…

Ha! Clubbing would be an unusual response..

Paris with my grandmother — Liam Drew READER’S DIGEST Liam Drew takes us along on his Parisian adventure with his grandmother and explores the importance of spending quality time with the people in your life

Very happily in Paris for a few days en famille. Remembering the second time I came, 23-year-old me taking my nan on her first trip abroad… www.liamdrew.net/articles/201...

Faecal transplants can treat some cancers — but probably won’t ever be widely used Gut microbiota could be crucial to the success or failure of immunotherapy. Donated stool might give oncologists a way to tip the balance, but the real excitement lies in what comes next.

My entry - www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I'm absolutely delighted to be shortlisted for The Gordon McVie Award for Reporting Cancer Research.

Hi all, I’m going to be writing an article that looks at when in their careers scientists feel they do their most satisfying work… I’m sure it’ll vary hugely but if you’d like to help provide a starting point please fill in this survey - and please share! survey.alchemer.com/s3/8407348/C...

Hi all, I’m going to be writing an article that looks at when in their careers scientists feel they do their most satisfying work… I’m sure it’ll vary hugely but if you’d like to help provide a starting point please fill in this survey - and please share! survey.alchemer.com/s3/8407348/C...

Royal Albert Hall for a WiP?

Yes, mind over matter fantasy nonsense. The efforts my relative made to keep waking and moving were desperate… .

I have a loved one with CBD too - it’s been savage. I can imagine someone having odd neurological symptoms and CBD being mooted as a *possible* cause. But my relative was way, way past the point of walking around Cornwall by the time the diagnosis was confidently made. It all stinks.

TBF, early on, CBD has much diagnostic uncertainty, without a definitive signature it’ll typically be one of several possibilities. Maybe the guy had some issues and it was cited as a possible cause but it’s very hard to see a neurologist saying someone capable of walking around Cornwall had CBD.

if I’d known CBD was at the heart of the SP, I would have read it, and I would’ve had a lot of questions. If I’d known the sequel reports that a bracing walk can reverse neurodegenerative, I’d have demanded to see those two alleged brain scans.

As a relative of someone with CBD, this pair can go fuck themselves.

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💻Panel 1 - 5 things we wish we'd known when we began our feature-writing careers

🎯Producer: Aisling Irwin

📢Speakers:
Rachel Brazil @rachelbrazil.bsky.social
@liamdrew.bsky.social
Clare Wilson @theipaper.com
Shaoni Bhattacharya

🧵 Several people have raised questions about what I meant by "deservedly so" when referring to the decline of institutional trust. It's a fair question, so I want to explain that, because it sits at the heart of my work on how democracies collapse when their epistemic foundations rot.

This paper is wild.

Cancer more deadly when tumours lack Y chromosomes — and the loss could be contagious Losing the Y chromosome seems to make cancer cells more aggressive in men and the phenomenon may even spread between cells.

A new paper in @nature.com suggests that cancer cells that have lost their Y chromosomes can induce this same mutation in nearby immune cells! And when both cell types have this mutation there's cancers are way more aggressive. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Or both…

Sorry, we left an implant in your brain Unexplainable · Episode

OA link open.spotify.com/episode/5zA6...

Sorry, we left an implant in your brain Unexplainable · Episode

Open access link to podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/5zA6...

Abandoned: the human cost of neurotechnology failure When the makers of electronic implants abandon their projects, people who rely on the devices have everything to lose.

The article that inspired the podcast: www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Sorry, we left an implant in your brain What happens if you get a life-changing device implanted…and the company that maintains it goes bankrupt?

I spoke to Vox's Unexplainable podcast -- alongside the brilliant Jennifer French -- about the problem of people having neural implants then losing support for those devices. www.vox.com/unexplainabl...

How vanishing Y chromosomes could help explain men's ill health The enigmatic Y chromosome has a tendency to disappear from cells with age. Now, research is revealing the long-term impacts this can have on disease risk and life expectancy

If you have a Y chromosome and are approaching middle age, chances are a good chunk of your immune cells are beginning to lose this chromosome - and that's likely bad for your health. It might help explain why men die earlier than women... My latest www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

Cartoon of a man wearing a T shirt which says “IF I HAD A TIME-MACHINE I WOULD GO BACK AND CORRECT THE SPELLING MISTAKE ON THIS T-SHIRT” (There is no spelling mistake).

Time Machine.

I can draw this for you as a cartoon

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And it's also available as a T shirt!

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Vote for the best of the internet I just voted in The Webby People's Voice Awards and checked my voter registration.

Whoop - I’m part of a @nature.com team nominated for a Webby Award for our short video on cancer busting vaccines! Any votes would be hugely appreciated :) vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...

Thrilled for my friend @helenscales.bsky.social

It really seems like a major test of what the “new normal” is - because this is definitely not normal…

This is wild. People happy with an 80% survival rate among their measles infected kids….