• Murder Your Darlings

     It makes me laugh when I hear people say that they don’t like fantasy or science fiction novels because ‘it’s not real’. All fiction, by definition, is made up. Yet, when it comes to imaginary monsters or aliens or magicians with pointy hats and white beards, many people don’t want to read...

  • The Fastest Cells in the World

    On your marks, get set…and polymerise your actin microfilaments. The results of the first ever World Cell Race are in and crawling into first place was a fetal bone marrow stem cell with a blistering top speed of 5.2 microns per minute. Fifty labs from around the world fielded athletes, who...

  • Susceptibility to Tuberculosis

    What does an Egyptian mummy have in common with one-third of the world’s population? The answer is tuberculosis (TB)—a disease which has been affecting mankind since prehistoric times. But, I hear you muttering, didn’t we already cure TB? Um, not really. Around 1.7 million people die from TB every...

  • Swan (Dive) Song

     On leaving laboratory science and why it’s going to be awesome (but first a rant) A few years ago, I went on this residential course for postdocs whose years’ experience was greater than their output of Nature/Science/Cell papers. We made paper bridges for hamsters and drew our innermost...

  • 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...

  • Wasted Time Isn’t Always Wasted Time

     The other day I commented to the father of my child that having a baby is a little bit like going to prison. Not the ‘nice’ sort of prison where they let you do Open University courses and try to make you a better person. A Victorian-style prison where the inmates are forced to turn a crank...

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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