Madeleine Finlay

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Madeleine Finlay |Ian Sample |Tony Onuchukwu |Ellie Bury

Doctors in the US have become the first to treat a baby with a customised gene-editing therapy after diagnosing the child with a severe genetic disorder that kills about half of those affected in early infancy. Ian Sample explains to Madeleine Finlay how this new therapy works and how it paves the way for even more complex gene editing techniques.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Madeleine Finlay |Leyland Cecco |Joel Cox |Ellie Bury

In March 2021, the Toronto-based reporter Leyland Cecco heard about a memo sent by New Brunswick health officials that warned about a possible unknown neurological syndrome thought to be affecting about 40 people. Since then the story has taken many twists and turns, most recently with a peer-reviewed study that concludes there is no mystery illness after all.

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Ian Sample |Madeleine Finlay |Joel Cox |Ellie Bury

Direct to consumer tests that claim to tell us our biological – as opposed to chronological – age are getting a lot of attention, but what can they really tell us about our health? Science editor Ian Sample talks to Dr Brian H Chen, an epidemiologist at the California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute, who has conducted research into a variety of these tests called epigenetic clocks.

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Ian Sample |Ashifa Kassam |Jillian Ambrose |Tom Glasser |Madeleine Finlay |Tony Onuchukwu | +1 more

Presented by Ian Sample with Ashifa Kassam and Jillian Ambrose, produced by Tom Glasser and Madeleine Finlay, sound design by Tony Onuchukwu, the executive producer was Ellie BuryThu 1 May 2025 00.00 EDTAuthorities are still trying to understand what triggered the massive power outage that left the majority of the Iberian Peninsula without electricity on Monday.

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Madeleine Finlay |Damien Gayle |Rachel Porter |Joel Cox |Ellie Bury

Just Stop Oil, the climate activism group behind motorway blockades, petrol station disruption and tomato soup attacks on major artworks, has disbanded after staging a final action in London this weekend. To find out why the group has decided to hang up the famous orange high-vis, Madeleine Finlay hears from our environment correspondent Damien Gayle who has been covering Just Stop Oil since its inception.