Scientists have found new chemistry that could hint at the origins of Life on Earth, and in turn, our ancestry.

A unique opportunity to hear Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys FRS Hon FRSB give a first-hand account of how he developed DNA fingerprinting after a ‘Eureka moment’ in his Leicestershire lab back in 1984. This very special fundraising event at the Science Museum’s IMAX theatre, will give guests the inside story on Sir Alec’s famous discovery, […]

What can your DNA tell you about your risk of developing cancer? What could it reveal about the best way to treat cancers? Could we be entering a future where cancer treatment is based your unique genetic makeup, and that of your cancer? Meet the people trying to answer these questions, and pose your own, at Eighty […]

Over the last 52 years BBC’s Horizon programme has been documenting the cutting-edge of science, technology and how it effects our lives. From Frank Oppenheimer to Carl Sagan and DNA to dinosaurs it has brought us stories from the frontline and continues to innovate. We’ll get unique access to clips from the Horizon vaults to watch how science and […]

When he’s not swabbing beards for bacteria on BBC’s “Trust me, I’m a Doctor” or getting members of the public to search for new antibiotics through his Swab and Send project, Adam Roberts leads his research group at UCL who are investigating the intricacies of antimicrobial resistance and how bacteria can withstand pretty much anything […]

The language of genes has become common in the media. We know they make your eyes blue, your hair curly or your nose straight. We’re told that genes control the risk of cancer, heart disease, alcoholism or Alzheimer’s. The cost of DNA sequencing has plummeted from billions of pounds to a few hundred, and gene-based […]

We’ve all heard of genes, but how do they actually work? Geneticist Kat Arney and her scientific guests will draw on stories ranging from six-toed cats to fish hips, exploring how DNA is packed, unpacked and read. Kat will be talking to epigeneticist Professor Anne Ferguson-Smithfrom Cambridge University and Dr Ben Lehner, Group Leader at the Centre […]

Our DNA contains tens of thousands of individual genes that encode vital information responsible for the biological activities necessary for life. Most tissues in our body carry out very specialized processes which ultimately require that specific subsets of genes are used in the right place and at the right time. Join Professor Klose to learn […]

London LASER puts on evening talks at the intersection of art, science and technology. This November, London LASER hosts project collaborators from Silent Signal, a Wellcome trust funded project that brings together six artists and six scientists to create experimental animations that immerse the viewer in the networked worlds of organic communication. Bentley Crudgington will provide an overview to […]

How was the code of DNA cracked? How did it confirm the theory of evolution? And why did life evolve the way it did? To celebrate their ground-breaking new books, Matthew Cobb and Nick Lane will come together to unravel the tangled story of DNA and answer the vital question: why are we as we are, and why are we here at all?

Yodit Feseha looks at the numbers that underlie much of nature, and how we see beauty

From the origin of life through to the development of language and culture, Charlotte Mykura explores the rise of human beings

Yodit Feseha tells us how ageing works and if it’s possible to reverse it
(taken from the latest issue of I,Science magazine)

Mutations are ticks on the molecular clock, and can now be used to measure evolutionary distances

Our DNA endures a constant bombardment of damaging agents, so how does it cope? …

This is the story of how telomeres determine our lifespan, but can they help ‘cure’ aging? …

Find out the latest on bringing back extinct species and perhaps one day; a Neanderthal …

We are constantly reminded of the looming, ominous and terrible prospect of cancer …

The company xHumed imagines digitally resurrecting great minds from the past to help us solve current problems …

If all of the cells in the human body contain exactly the same genes, then why don’t all of our body parts look exactly the same? …

The challenge of studying long-dead species could have the surprisingly simple solution of museomics …

Part of the Imperial Festival podcast series: Senja Barthel uses mathematics to discover more about knots …

Epigenetics questions the notion that genes are the only inherited information and could lead to acquiring superhuman abilities …

Part of the Imperial Festival podcast series: Stefan Croniszewski talks to us about uses for this new wonder material …

Women throughout the ages have helped to shape our understanding of science. Here are six of the most influential …

The whole human genome is printed in several volumes at the Wellcome Collection, but it may not be as complete as you’d think …

India Renziehausen saw Professor Adrian Bird present his prize winning work on Rett syndrome at the Royal Society …

‘Science Cafe’ on sixty years since DNA’s structure was discovered, while Dame Sue Ion talks about the nuclear industry in ‘The Life Scientific’ …

How much should we know about the genomes of our unborn children? Recent advances in prenatal testing have ethical implications …

Harmful bacteria selectively ‘eat’ DNA to build antibiotic resistance. The discovery could help prevent outbreaks of meningitis …