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Science Communication Competition video winner – Communicating Science through Art

By Jirayu “Boo Boo” Tanprasertsuk, Ph.D. candidate in Biochemical and Molecular Nutrition, Tufts University

Jirayu was the winner of the 2018 Biochemical Society Science Communication Competition (video category). Here Jirayu explores some of his inspirations in creating his video. You can see his winning entry, “Eating for your eyes”, here. The winning written article, by Victoria Bolton, is published in the August 2018 issue of The Biochemist magazine, which you can find here.

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jcwbrownSeptember 3, 2018September 3, 2018Leave a comment

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Science Communication Competition 2018 – Winners Announced

James Brown, Biochemical Society

We are pleased to announce the winners of our Science Communication Competition. Now in its seventh year, the competition attracted entries from all over the world which were reviewed by our panel of expert judges. The competition asks entrants to create an engaging, creative article or video explaining biomolecular topics to the general public. More information about the competition can be found on our website.

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jcwbrownJune 6, 2018July 8, 2019Leave a comment

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SciComm Competition: Video winner

By Alex Binks, University of Glasgow

Hearing that I had come first place in the Biochemical Society Science communication competition was a wonderful feeling. Of course, this feeling was in part due to my excitement over the prospect of having an extra £300 to spend on all manner of sensible and not-so-sensible purchases. But more importantly, I had managed to prove to myself that it’s possible to make a successful science video without any money or any clue what the hell I was doing.

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Science communication & public engagement

A novel use for CRISPR – use of narratives in public engagement

By James Brown, Education and Public Engagement Manager, Biochemical Society

To Hoover. To Google. To CRISPR. As Jennifer Doudna pointed out at the launch of her new book, A Crack in Creation, once your invention has become a verb, you know you’re onto something big. And CRISPR (or CRISPR-Cas9) is certainly big; it doesn’t seem like hyperbole to describe it as a ‘game-changer’ in molecular bioscience.

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jcwbrownJuly 26, 2017August 3, 2017Leave a comment