Henry is a freelance science writer, writing for high-profile journals like Nature and PLoS Biology, in magazines such as New Scientist and BBC Focus, and in broadsheets like the Guardian and the Independent. Before going freelance, he spent several years working atBioMedNet News, Elsevier's acclaimed online daily news service, writing news and features on all aspects of the life sciences.

Mystery of the brown giant panda deepens. Nature, 18 January 2010
The giant panda genome. Nature Podcast, 24 December 2009
A change in climate. Galapagos News, Autumn/Winter 2009
Taming the beast. New Scientist, 5 October 2009
Mouth to Mouth. Nature, 10 September 2009
First swine flu death on the Galapagos. Nature, 8 September 2009
Lonesome George: not so lonesome tonight?. The Times, 19 August 2009
Thallium.Chemistry World, 5 August 2009
Plants on the move. Review of The Plant Hunters by Carolyn Fry. New Scientist, 29 April 2009
Celebrating Galapagos. Galapagos News, Spring/Summer 2009
Life in the old bird. Galapagos News, Spring/Summer 2009
Time to sequence the 'red and the dead'. Nature, 16 April 2009
CSI wildlife. Review of Animal Investigators by Laurel A. Neme. New Scientist, 30 March 2009
Chi Chi: panda ambassador. BBC Radio 4, 11 March 2009
Take a handful of seeds.... New Scientist, 12 February 2009
Darwin 200: A flight of fancy. Nature, 12 February 2009
A flight of fancy. Nature Podcast, 11 February 2009
Resurrection Park. New Scientist, 10 January 2009
Synthetic biology. The Lancet, 1 December 2008
Darwin 200: Let's make a mammoth. Nature, 20 November 2008
A mammoth task. Nature Podcast, 19 October 2008
Lonesome George may miss out on fatherhood. Nature News, 11 November 2008
Chrono-creatures. New Scientist, 1 November 2008
Profile: Geoffrey Donnan. The Lancet Neurology, November 2008
Battling with aliens. Galapagos News, Autumn/Winter 2008
Next up... Galapagos News, Autumn/Winter 2008
Profile: starting up with stem cells. Cell Stem Cell, October 2008
Profile: Olivier Rabin. Nature Biotechnology, August 2008
Trouble brewing. Chemistry World, August 2008
Does fatherhood loom for Lonesome George? Nature News, 24 July 2008
Paradise lost? Review of Coral: A pessimist in paradise by Steve Jones. New Scientist, 19 July 2008
Domestic origins. Review of Darwin’s Garden by Michael Boulter. New Scientist, 9 July 2008
50 cancers to be sequenced. Nature Biotechnology, July 2008
Little emperors. New Scientist, 26 June 2008
In silico vaccine. Nature Biotechnology, June 2008
Profile: Fiona Watt, ISSCR's President Elect. Cell Stem Cell, June 2008
FDA gets personal. Nature Biotechnology, June 2008
The bygone age of man. BBC Focus, May 2008
On the origin of muffin pudding, by Emma Darwin. New Scientist, 17 April 2008
Water retains DNA memory of hidden species. Chemistry World, 10 April 2008
How plants shudder at shade. Chemistry World, 9 April 2008
Galapagos "in danger". Galapagos News, Spring/Summer 2008
Disappearing tortoises: playing God in the Galapagos. The Independent, 20 February 2008
Darwin's London. Nature Network London, 12 February 2008
Quinine synthesis mystery solved. Chemistry World, 5 February 2008
The ice man cometh. New Scientist, 24 January 2008
Behind the scenes. Review of Dry Store Room No. 1 by Richard Fortey. Nature, 24 January 2008
Icons of evolution. Review of How and Why Species Multiply by Peter and Rosemary Grant. New Scientist, 19 January 2008
Dreamscapes. Review of Sleeping and Dreaming at Wellcome Collection. Nature, 10 January 2008
Taxonomy on trial. Review of Trying Leviathan by D. Graham Burnett. Nature, 20 December 2007
The chemistry set generation. Chemistry World, December 2007
Minerals bring new sparkle to museum. Nature Network London, 28 November 2007
Fruit worship. Review of Citrus: A History by Pierre Laszlo. New Scientist, 27 October 2007
Conservation contradiction. Nature Podcast, 18 October 2007
The camel factor. New Scientist, 3 October 2007
On George's island. The Virginia Quarterly Review, Fall 2007
I, Chimera. BBC Focus, October 2007
BBC Focus podcast on chimeras, October 2007
The oxygen revolution. Chemistry World, 7 September 2007
Secret of our killer blood. New Scientist, 22 August 2007
Taking science to market: from start-up to big business. Wellcome Science, 7 August 2007
Darwin down but not out. Nature, 21 June 2007
No place like home. New Scientist, 6 June 2007
Hybrid vigour. Wellcome News, 30 April 2007
New hope for Galapagos' 'Lonesome George'. New Scientist, 30 April 2007
The molecular cannibal in vitamin B12 synthesis. Chemistry World, 21 March 2007
Welcome to our world. New Scientist, 17 March 2007
Darwin, burps and all. New Scientist, 17 March 2007
The mother of all enzymes. Chemistry World, 15 March 2007
Linnaeus at 300: The royal raccoon from Swedesboro. Nature, 14 March 2007
Nature podcast on Carl Linnaeus, 14 March 2007
Sorcerer II: the search for microbial diversity roils the waters. PLoS Biology, March 2007
A few notes on teasing worms. Review of Darwin Loves You by George Levine. THES, 9 March 2007
Researchers sink their teeth in. Chemistry World, 19 February 2007
Raphael revealed by Raman spectroscopy. Chemistry World, 13 February 2007
Snakes have a soft spot for heart-stopping toad toxins. Chemistry World, 30 January 2007
Bees get a buzz from dancing. Chemistry World, 15 January 2007
Microscopic lab investigates contents of a cell. Chemistry World, 4 January 2007
Umpires don't cheat - fact. The Wisden Cricketer, January 2007
Silent SNPs serve up a structural surprise. Chemistry World, 21 December 2006
The wierd world of Edmond Halley. Astronomy Now, November 2006
A life online. Nature, 19 October 2006
Trouble in Darwin's paradise. New Scientist, 12 October 2006
Worm casts as objets d'art. Review of Charles Darwin and Victorian Visual Culture by Jonathan Smith. THES, 6 October 2006
Shaking the tree of life. Wellcome Science, 2 October 2006
Digging for dodo. Nature, 13 September 2006
Penguins face a rocky future. Galapagos News, Autumn/Winter 2006
Bad rat, good rat. Galapagos News, UK, Autumn/Winter 2006
Moving forward: helping muscles, bones and joints. Wellcome Focus, September 2006
A common approach: tackling neurodegenerative disease. Wellcome Focus, September 2006
A rich soup of ideas. Wellcome Science, 15 September 2006
Catalysts of creation. Chemistry World, August 2006
Alzheimer's drug protects against Sarin. Chemistry World, 7 August 2006
Tall stories and the twisted history of science. New Scientist, 15 July 2006
Not on my back lawn. Chemistry World, 7 July 2006
Restoring Nature's backbone. Public Library of Science Biology, June 2006
The tourist trap. The Guardian, 19 April 2006
Supermodels: mathematical modelling of infectious disease. Wellcome Science, 18 April 2006
Industry and Endeavour. Endeavour, March 2006
Mind-altering drugs at the Olympics. Chemistry World, 23 February 2006
Avian influenza: the inside story. Public Library of Science Biology, February 2006
Snapshots of 19th-century science. Endeavour, September 2005
Putting the flesh on the bones of archaeology. Chemistry World, September 2005
A sporting chance. New Scientist, 27 August 2005
Shaving the beard from the face of science. Endeavour, June 2005
Scientists tangle over tau. Chemistry World, June 2005
Just a spoonful of sugar. Chemistry World, April 2005
Koalas turn their noses up at eucalyptus. Chemistry World, April 2005
Clandestine chemists at it again. Chemistry World, March 2005
More than the loss of a library. Endeavour, March 2005
Ancient DNA comes of age. Public Library of Science Biology, February 2005
Hopes rise as head named for troubled conservation centre. Nature, 3 February 2005
The end of the beginning is nigh. Drug Discovery Today: Targets, December 2004
Lifting new drugs from old books. Endeavour, December 2004
Cash injection for thermostable vaccines. Drug Discovery Today, 15 November 2004
Sink or swim. Nature, 4 November 2004
Sleepless sparrows. BBC Wildlife Magazine, November 2004
Drug discovery in the library. The Scientist, 11 October 2004
Scoping for doping. Chemistry World, October 2004
Agricultural gender crisis. Chemistry World, October 2004
Fielding is a dog's life. The Wisden Cricketer, September 2004
The conservation business. Public Library of Science Biology, September 2004
Exploring the archives. Endeavour, September 2004
Let there be light. BBC Wildlife Magazine, September 2004
Gardening on the nanoscale. Chemistry World, August 2004
As the magnetic worm turns. Chemistry World, August 2004
Winging it without sleep. ScienceNOW, 13 July 2004
The eyespots have it. ScienceNOW, 12 July 2004
Unique immune system found in lampreys. ScienceNOW, 7 July 2004
Culturing peace. BBC Wildlife Magazine, July 2004
Stopping the rot. Public Library of Science Biology, July 2004
Marine minerals map Cretaceous climate. Chemistry World, July 2004
Monogamous minds. ScienceNOW, 16 June 2004
Feathered followers of fashion. ScienceNOW, 15 June 2004
T. rex's shock-absorbing skull. ScienceNOW, 9 June 2004
One of a kind. Nature, 3 June 2004
The highs and lows of predicting the weather. Endeavour, June 2004
Keeping a cool head. The Wisden Cricketer, June 2004
The agony and the ecstasy. The Independent, 14 April 2004
Why sex makes female ticks fat. The Scientist, 6 April 2004
Europe-Africa partnership set to launch clinical trials. Nature Medicine, April 2004
Wheat gene weathers the cold. BioMedNet News, 11 March 2004
Talking up tau in Alzheimer's disease. BioMedNet News, 9 March 2004
Meditating over the health benefits of Tai Chi. BioMedNet News, 8 March 2004
Incentives urgently needed to reduce high-tech trash. BioMedNet News, 5 March 2004
The 44 million-year itch. BioMedNet News, 3 March 2004
EU newcomers face fast-food frenzy. BioMedNet News, 1 March 2004
Captive inbreeding. BBC Wildlife Magazine, March 2004
HIV comes of age. Endeavour, March 2004
Smoking the fire of climate change. BioMedNet News, 27 February 2004
Heard the latest on HRT? BioMedNet News, 24 February 2004
Countdown to comet mission . BioMedNet News, 24 February 2004
UK reviews approach to GM. BioMedNet News, 23 February 2004
Breast knows best. BioMedNet News, 20 February 2004
Easing the squeeze on cancer drugs. BioMedNet News, 19 February 2004
Cloned mules show their age. BioMedNet News, 19 February 2004
Springtime for plant biochemistry. BioMedNet News, 12 February 2004
COSMIC assault on cancer. BioMedNet News, 5 February 2004
Agriculture to benefit from the spies in our skies. BioMedNet News, 4 February 2004
Pointing the finger at female philanderers. BioMedNet News, 3 February 2004
Could antibiotics fend off cancer? BioMedNet News, 2 February 2004
Bouncing back after baby. BioMedNet News, 29 January 2004
Plants get called up for action. BioMedNet News, 23 January 2004
Yeast gets humanized. BioMedNet News, 15 January 2004
The price of purifying proteins. BioMedNet News, 15 January 2004
Milking goats for malaria vaccine. BioMedNet News, 14 January 2004
Clamping down on clumping. BioMedNet News, 8 January 2004
Breeding program or inbreeding program? BioMedNet News, 6 January 2004
DNA evidence promises deliverance from inbreeding. BioMedNet News, 6 January 2004
The shape of things to come. BioMedNet News, 16 December 2003
Respecting communities allays biopiracy alarm. BioMedNet News, 4 December 2003
At the cutting edge of history. Endeavour, December 2003
Consolidating research to address global change. BioMedNet News, 28 November 2003
Neurons are dying to learn more. BioMedNet News, 27 November 2003
Horticulturists' sweet smell of success. BioMedNet News, 27 November 2003
Biopolymers - do you want fries with that? BioMedNet News, 21 November 2003
HRT for men? BioMedNet News, 14 November 2003
Adult stem cells to mend a broken heart. BioMedNet News, 14 November 2003
The coast is clear... or is it? BioMedNet News, 13 November 2003
Imaging on the brain. BioMedNet News, 6 November 2003
Beacons throw spotlight on mRNA two-step. BioMedNet News, 6 November 2003
Sowing the seeds of intelligence. BioMedNet News, 3 November 2003
Informing on pest threats. BioMedNet News, 30 October 2003
HIV in South Africa: talking positive. BioMedNet News, 27 October 2003
Comparative genomics matures. BioMedNet News, 24 October 2003
Digging up the risks of herbal supplements. BioMedNet News, 23 October 2003
Unexpected relief for AIDS patients taking opiates. BioMedNet News, 22 October 2003
Eating into the sea-cucumber population. BioMedNet News, 21 October 2003
What does ghrelin do to babies? BioMedNet News, 25 September 2003
Carving out a future for dry forest. BioMedNet News, 8 September 2003
Andropause for thought. Endeavour, September 2003
Minding the Ps and Qs of genomewide analysis. BioMedNet News, 20 August 2003
Fetal heart programmed by placental cues. BioMedNet News, 23 July 2003
Geneticists meet for coffee. BioMedNet News, 17 July 2003
Weeding out the bad from the good nematodes. BioMedNet News, 30 June 2003
Getting a Randle on metabolism. BioMedNet News, 23 June 2003
Day 100 lessons from SARS. BioMedNet News, 18 June 2003
A history of heredity: the wider perspective. Endeavour, June 2003
SARS masking the real danger. BioMedNet News, 19 May 2003
So you think you know the double helix story. BioMedNet News, 21 April 2003
Double helix photo not taken by Franklin. BioMedNet News, 24 April 2003
Just what is Gulf War syndrome? BioMedNet News, 16 April 2003
Endocrinologists chew over the fat. BioMedNet News, 29 March 2003
Anorexics carry the CART. BioMedNet News, 26 March 2003
Mini satellites pose major threat. BioMedNet News, 27 March 2003
Thinking through chronic fatigue. BioMedNet News, 24 March 2003
GM can beet EU reform. BioMedNet News, 13 March 2003
Managing mutations of an old threat. Endeavour, March 2003
Y being male is risky. BioMedNet News, 24 February 2003
Dolly's parting. BioMedNet News, 19 February 2003
Dolly - not old before her time. BioMedNet News, 19 February 2003
Can nature measure up to Viagra? BioMedNet News, 18 February 2003
Evolutionary relics could be missing the boat. BioMedNet News, 7 February 2003
Regulating access to genetic tests. BioMedNet News, 5 February 2003
Australians cotton on to GM. BioMedNet News, 31 January 2003
Feeding the world or short-term fix. BioMedNet News, 31 January 2003
Are plants warming up the world? BioMedNet News, 29 January 2003
Division over mammalian embryo cleavage. BioMedNet News, 27 January 2003
Benchmarking brings European Research Area a step closer. BioMedNet News, 22 January 2003
Shall I compare thee to a European lab? BioMedNet News, 22 January 2003
Uzbek wheat offers more to eat. BioMedNet News, 16 January 2003
From bioscience to bioterror: Are we too late? BioMedNet News, 9 January 2003
DNA the barcode of life? BioMedNet News, 8 January 2003
Time to update taxonomy? BioMedNet News, 8 January 2003
Noisy bats distinguish themselves. BioMedNet News, 20 December 2002
The great British sparrow mystery. BioMedNet News, 19 December 2002
For wasps, it's all in the family. BioMedNet News, 11 December 2002
GMOs labeled. BioMedNet News, 4 December 2002
Europe tightens GM food regulations. BioMedNet News, 4 December 2002
Endeavour's greatest Briton. Endeavour, December 2002
Third time's the charm for rhesus macaque. BioMedNet News, 18 October 2002
Henrietta Darwin's unnatural dissection. BioMedNet News, 10 October 2002
Evolution of a darwinian natural collection. BioMedNet News, 25 September 2002
Learning from Linnaeus. Endeavour, September 2002
Learning from Linnaeus. BioMedNet News, 22 August 2002
Aromatase inhibitors continue their ATAC on tamoxifen. Trends in Molecular Medicine, August 2002
Selling anatomy: the role of the soul. Endeavour June 2002
Sperm control. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, April 2002
Aromatase inhibitor set for another showdown with tamoxifen. BioMedNet News, 18 February 2002
Every sperm is useful. HMS Beagle, 15 February 2002
Unique experiment tests online awareness. BioMedNet News, 17 January 2002
Three mechanisms guide spiralling roots. BioMedNet News, 31 December 2001
Bioweapons negotiators criticize US double standards. BioMedNet News, 21 December 2001
Extinction on hold for Dutch biologists. BioMedNet News, 28 November 2001
Human link to asthma gene discovery unproven. BioMedNet News, 16 November 2001
Consciousness is not all in the head. BioMedNet News, 21 September 2001
When depression is a social statement. BioMedNet News, 18 July 2001
Into the heady world of defining expertise. BioMedNet News, 6 July 2001
When three steps forward is one step back. BioMedNet News, 4 July 2001
Darwin is innocent. Okay! BioMedNet News, 21 June 2001
On a wing and a prayer. The Guardian, 12 July 2000