Ewen joined Nature in August 2010, after 2 years at New Scientist as Boston-based biomedical reporter. He attended the science-writing programme at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and earned a master's degree in microbiology at the University of Washington. He spends his free time learning to bicycle on the left side of the road.
THE CAST
Karen Walker: embryologist, PPL Therapeutics, Roslin, UK; now director, KXRegulatory: Linlithgow, UK
Bill Ritchie: embryologist, Roslin Institute; now at Roslin Embryology
Angela Scott: cell-culture technician, PPL; now chief operating officer, TC BioPharm, Motherwell, UK
Alan Colman: research director, PPL; now at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Ian Wilmut: embryologist, Roslin; now University of Edinburgh, UK
John Bracken: farm research assistant, Roslin; now retired
Angelika Schnieke: molecular biologist, PPL; now Technical University of Munich, Germany
Harry Griffin: scientific director, Roslin; now retired
Jim McWhir: stem-cell scientist, Roslin; now retired
