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Jessica Hamzelou

@JessHamzelou

Senior reporter @techreview. KSJ fellow '24. BSME best specialist/digital writer 2018 and 2021. ABSW British science writer of the year 2017. DMs open. She/her

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Seen #exosomes advertised for anti-aging, hair regrowth, or as a miracle cure? Unfortunately, even cell biologists don't really know what they do—or if there are any benefits, or risks, to using them. technologyreview.com/2024/10…
Exosomes are touted as a trendy cure-all. We don’t know if they work.

Exosomes are touted as a trendy cure-all. We don’t know if they work.

People are spending thousands of dollars on unproven exosome therapies for hair loss, skin aging, and acne, as well as more serious conditions like long covid and Alzheimer’s.

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So pleased to receive this. Thank you so much to all the @absw team and judges. Big congrats to all the winners and finalists. And thanks everyone for a lovely evening!
ABSW (@absw) profile pictureABSW@absw3 Jul 2024
#ABSWawards 🏆 Winner, News Item of the Year @JessHamzelou @techreview 📍“The story is really well researched and clearly explains the complicated science underpinning the technique and the potential health implications for affected individuals.” 🔗zurl.co/aP6k
Three-parent baby technique could create babies at risk of severe disease

Three-parent baby technique could create babies at risk of severe disease

The approach was designed to prevent mitochondrial disease, but new evidence shows it might not work as planned.

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Thrilled to be on this shortlist! Congrats to all and thank you @NIHCMfoundation
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@NIHCMfoundation20 Mar 2024
Amazing work by the 2024 NIHCM Trade Award Finalists! bit.ly/TradeJn #NIHCMAwardsJournalism @ScienceMagazine @martinenserink @sciencecohen @cpiller @JessHamzelou @techreview @BLaw @business @cecelou18 @AndrewWallender @GaryHarki @juliesteinberg4 @KaustuvBasu1 @Alexruoff
Finalists Announced for the 30th Annual NIHCM Awards in Journalism and Research; 30 Years of Celebrating NIHCM Awards; Trade Journalism: Logos - Undark, ACP Hospitalist, Bloomberg Law, MIT Technology Review, MedPage Today, BioPharma Dive, Science; #NIHCMAwardsJournalism; nihcm.org

ALT Finalists Announced for the 30th Annual NIHCM Awards in Journalism and Research; 30 Years of Celebrating NIHCM Awards; Trade Journalism: Logos - Undark, ACP Hospitalist, Bloomberg Law, MIT Technology Review, MedPage Today, BioPharma Dive, Science; #NIHCMAwardsJournalism; nihcm.org

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Can longevity medicine go mainstream? I wrote about the quest to legitimise the field technologyreview.com/2024/03…
The quest to legitimize longevity medicine

The quest to legitimize longevity medicine

Longevity clinics offer a mix of services that largely cater to the wealthy. Now there’s a push to establish their work as a credible medical field.

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Marcello Ienca@MarcelloIenca31 May 2023
Interesting in-depth article written by @JessHamzelou for @techreview covering our study with Frederic Gilbert & Mark Cook about the agential discontinuity caused in a patient by the explantation of a neural implant (and its implications for #neurorights) technologyreview.com/2023/05…
A brain implant changed her life. Then it was removed against her will.

A brain implant changed her life. Then it was removed against her will.

Her case highlights why we need to enshrine neuro rights in law.

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Extremely excited about this!
KSJ at MIT (@KSJatMIT) profile pictureKSJ at MIT@KSJatMIT19 Apr 2023
We are thrilled to announce the multi-talented group of reporters and editors who will make up our 2023-24 Knight Science Journalism Fellowship Class: ksj.mit.edu/news/2023/04/19/…
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Big congrats to Olly Puglisi, picture editor extraordinaire, who is not on Twitter but has been shortlisted for TWO BSME awards ⭐️ bsme.com/talent-awards-2023-…
Talent Awards 2023 shortlist — BSME

Talent Awards 2023 shortlist — BSME

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Thrilled to be at the launch of @rifish's book The Long View. Really looking forward to reading this one!
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Really chuffed to be on this shortlist with so many incredible journalists
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@NIHCMfoundation22 Mar 2023
Amazing work by the 2023 NIHCM Trade Award Finalists! Congratulations!! bit.ly/TradeJn #NIHCMAwardsJournalism @SophNaama @SW_MedReporter @JessHamzelou @kakape @Jared_Whitlock @newsbeagle @endpts @medpagetoday @nature
Finalists Announced for the 29th Annual NIHCM Awards in Journalism and Research; Trade Journalism: EndPoint News, Nature, IEEE Spectrum, Nature, Washington Business Journal, MIT Technology Review, MedPage Today, Medscape, Science; NIHCM Foundation, #NIHCMAwardsJournalism; #NIHCMAwardsResearch; nihcm.org

ALT Finalists Announced for the 29th Annual NIHCM Awards in Journalism and Research; Trade Journalism: EndPoint News, Nature, IEEE Spectrum, Nature, Washington Business Journal, MIT Technology Review, MedPage Today, Medscape, Science; NIHCM Foundation, #NIHCMAwardsJournalism; #NIHCMAwardsResearch; nihcm.org

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Great to chat to @NitaFarahany about tech that aims to read your mind and probe your memories - and how we need new rules to protect our cognitive liberty. (And about real-life attempts at dream inception!) technologyreview.com/2023/03…
Tech that aims to read your mind and probe your memories is already here

Tech that aims to read your mind and probe your memories is already here

We need new rules to protect our cognitive liberty, says futurist and legal ethicist Nita Farahany.

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Just arrived at the third international human genome editing summit. Protestors already here #HGESummit
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Big news: the "3-parent baby" tech is meant to prevent disease in babies. But new evidence suggests that it might not work in around 1 in 5 cases. Some scientists believe there's a 20% risk of potentially creating a baby with disease. technologyreview.com/2023/03…
Three-parent baby technique could create babies at risk of severe disease

Three-parent baby technique could create babies at risk of severe disease

The approach was designed to prevent mitochondrial disease, but new evidence shows it might not work as planned.

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It's because the mitchondrial DNA "reverts" from that of a healthy donor to that of the mother, which could carry disease-causing mutations. “We were hoping we wouldn’t see it in babies,” Shoukhrat Mitalipov told me. “Now we have data to show that this is real.”
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One of *those* tweets, but @virginmedia hasn't provided any Internet for 4 days, and is saying that, not only will it take at least another 2 days (this deadline has been moving all week so totally unconvinced), we have to pay £240 to leave them. Avoid at all costs
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We can make babies from a person's eggs, sperm or embryos after they've died. But should we? And who gets to decide? technologyreview.com/2022/11…
We can now use cells from dead people to create new life. But who gets to decide?

We can now use cells from dead people to create new life. But who gets to decide?

This is why it's important to tell partners or parents whether you’d want your eggs, sperm or embryos to be used after you’ve died.

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This article is from this week's edition of my newsletter, The Checkup. Sign up! forms.technologyreview.com/n…
The Checkup

The Checkup

The Checkup is MIT Technology Review's weekly newsletter that is all about bodies: how we treat them, enhance them and understand them.

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I took a test to find out my biological age... and it told me I wasn't as young as I'd hoped 😢 technologyreview.com/2022/11…
I found out my biological age—and was annoyed by the result

I found out my biological age—and was annoyed by the result

Biological clocks hint at how many years of healthy life you have left. I was gutted to learn that my veggie diet and regular yoga haven't put me above average.

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🚨Finally online: my feature about the super-posh conference in the Swiss Alps for scientists and billionaires trying to live healthier, for longer. Rejuvenation dinners, suspect supplements, partying scientists, dreams of space travel and much more 💰 technologyreview.com/2022/11…
Inside the billion-dollar meeting for the mega-rich who want to live forever

Inside the billion-dollar meeting for the mega-rich who want to live forever

Hope, hype, and self-experimentation collided at an exclusive conference for ultra-rich investors who want to extend their lives past 100. I went along for the ride.

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This week's edition of The Checkup is now online! It's all about what it means to be a parent. Advances in reproductive tech could lead to children with 4 or more genetic parents - does this change how we define parenthood? 👶 technologyreview.com/2022/10…
How reproductive technology is changing what it means to be a parent

How reproductive technology is changing what it means to be a parent

Advances could lead to babies with four or more biological parents—forcing us to reconsider parenthood.

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