• Lab on a Chip Technology to Investigate how Bacteria Move

    Awaking in the middle of the night, every tiny sound—a creaking floorboard, the drip of a tap, the quiet breathing of the murderer hiding in the wardrobe—can appear magnified. Yet, during the day, when background noise is higher, we don’t notice these same sounds. It’s not that they aren’t there,...

  • Finishing Things

     So last week I ‘finished’ my latest book. It’s a young adult novel about a girl who can find lost things and the search for a mythical forgotten city with a beating stone heart said to hold the key to immortality. Also, man-eating gargoyles. I’m not very good at finishing things, so getting...

  • Fw: Criminal Gang Initiations in Rural English Villages

     If you see a baby seat left by the side of the road, DO NOT STOP!!! Local police have released a warning that criminal gangs are using this ruse to lure women into stopping their cars to check on the baby. The location of the car seat will usually be beside a wooded area, and the woman will be...

  • Hitting an Invisible Target in TB Vaccine Design

     I have a troubled relationship with Twitter. It’s an unredeemable hate sort of thing. I’m generally an inane mix of angry opinion and low self-esteem so, in theory, we’re perfect for each other. I just don’t feel it, though. I had a quick look for online videos in the same vein of the YouTube...

  • All ducks are equal but some are more equal than others

    I made the worst decision of my life the other day and think the guilt will linger for at least another decade. You know those little parks you can go to which are liberally scattered with ducks? Ducks on all the ponds, ducks mingling with the sheep and random alpacas, ducks pestering...

  • Dark Matter: What’s Science Got to Hide?

     Scientific data is more freely available than ever. But does the push for openness help or hinder science? A panel debate at Imperial College London on 6th December sought to answer this question, launching the latest edition of Index on Censorship magazine—a special issue focussing on...

Saturday, 5 October 2013

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Scientists find the gene for…

Posted by Kathryn at 17:29 • 0 comments
  Steve Jones begun his talk at the Henley Literature Festival by breaking the news that he was not the same Steve Jones who played guitar in the Sex Pistols. I was personally quite glad about this because it would have made writing this article on genetics somewhat difficult. The Welsh geneticist and snail fan-iteration...
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