Lisa Melton

Lisa Melton is Nature Biotechnology’s Senior News Editor. She has a degree in Biochemistry and a PhD in Nutrition and Gut Immunology, from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. After moving to London to pursue her postdocs, she swapped lab work for storytelling, and published in The Economist, the New Scientist and Scientific American among others. Now as an editor, she still loves the science related to food and the gut, especially fermentation—it’s biotech after all!