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Ian Lyall

Ian Lyall is a business journalist, investment writer and editor with a background spanning national and international news services. He specialises in pulling apart complex stories, stripping out the noise and explaining what is really going on.

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Biofoundries explained: Inside the robot labs, engineering biology at industrial scale post image

Biofoundries explained: Inside the robot labs, engineering biology at industrial scale

CRISPR delivery explained: Why editing DNA is easier than getting the editor to the right cells post image

CRISPR delivery explained: Why editing DNA is easier than getting the editor to the right cells

Robot batteries explained: why they are not just smaller electric vehicle packs post image

Robot batteries explained: why they are not just smaller electric vehicle packs

Digital twins in medicine and engineering: How to tell a useful tool from an expensive mirage post image

Digital twins in medicine and engineering: How to tell a useful tool from an expensive mirage

Lab-on-a-chip explained: Tiny microfluidic devices that could shrink the laboratory post image

Lab-on-a-chip explained: Tiny microfluidic devices that could shrink the laboratory

Biological age tests explained: What they measure, what they miss, and how to read the results post image

Biological age tests explained: What they measure, what they miss, and how to read the results

Robotic touch and haptics explained: Why teaching machines to feel is harder than seeing post image

Robotic touch and haptics explained: Why teaching machines to feel is harder than seeing

I model updates, why tools change overnight and how to manage version risk post image

I model updates, why tools change overnight and how to manage version risk

AI and IP for businesses: Protecting your content and your brand post image

AI and IP for businesses: Protecting your content and your brand

Surveillance advertising: Trackers, fingerprinting, and what users can do post image

Surveillance advertising: Trackers, fingerprinting, and what users can do

Prediction markets: A virtual time machine. Here's News Defused's guide to trading the future and avoiding the traps post image

Prediction markets: A virtual time machine. Here's News Defused's guide to trading the future and avoiding the traps

Will Khamenei go? Who will be the next Fed chair? And will the Bills win against the Broncos? Here we look into Polymarket’s crypto crystal ball post image

Will Khamenei go? Who will be the next Fed chair? And will the Bills win against the Broncos? Here we look into Polymarket’s crypto crystal ball