genetics

At 11 PM my iPhone buzzed with Bedtimebot’s first tweet of the night. It’s a Twitter bot created by a friend after I mused that there should be a bot …

There’s a cycle path in Cambridge that has the code for the breast cancer gene BRCA2 painted on it, with each nucleotide a colour. If this sounds familiar, you might …

I’ve experienced the other side of research recently. A number of weeks ago I spent an afternoon working with Cambridge students in their department. I wasn’t doing the research, I …

I found a copy of today’s Toronto Star newspaper on my coffee break, and was thrilled with the front page. All four front page articles in the print edition are …

I’ve been tempted to link to some of the ReGenesis science Facts Behind the Fiction articles I’ve written, but I kept putting it off because I’m always a few weeks …

In September I wrote this post about a panel discussion I attended. The event covered both a science-inspired dance project and the TV show ReGenesis. Of ReGenesis I said: “They …