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First up, Biomedical-research funder the Wellcome Trust has announced an ambitious initiative to improve the treatment of snakebites in poor...
genetics
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‘There can be no great accomplishment without risk,’ commented the hugely accomplished Astronaut Neil Armstrong, a man whose pioneering journey...
Silent Signal is an ambitious project partnering six artists working with animation together with six leading biomedical scientists, to create...
A unique opportunity to hear Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys FRS Hon FRSB give a first-hand account of how he developed...
The language of genes has become common in the media. We know they make your eyes blue, your hair curly...
Join Guerilla Science for a multisensory exploration of human attraction. Discover how your senses, brain and body react when you meet a...
We’ve all heard of genes, but how do they actually work? Geneticist Kat Arney and her scientific guests will draw on...
Our DNA contains tens of thousands of individual genes that encode vital information responsible for the biological activities necessary for...
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Eels migrate to the Sargasso Sea to breed “Eels are sending us a really major signal that we’re harming our...
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A lovely whiff of summer is floating through the UK this week, marking the beginning of the most frantic holiday...
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Your eyes meet across a crowded room. You know you are being obvious but you cannot stop staring. When you...
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Most of modern medicine focuses on how disease occurs – what affects our risk of getting sick and which diseases...
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Evolution is all about being selfish. By natural selection, genes that increase an individual’s chance of survival or fitness accumulate...
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The Generation is Holly Cave’s first novel, set in a dystopian London of the mid twenty-first century, in a future...
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Leading researchers from Imperial College London and the University of Melbourne have identified a new class of potent antibodies that...
Join Silvia Paracchini for an exploration of the genetic factors that affect handedness. Just one in nine people worldwide are...
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Teasdale, M. D. et al. (2015) Paging through history: parchment as a reservoir of ancient DNA for next generation sequencing....
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The largest genome wide study of the malarial parasite Plasmodium falciparum has uncovered the genetic changes that underlie its resistance...
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A law passed by the European Parliament on Tuesday 13th January will give individual EU countries the right to allow...
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Malaria parasites have a cunning mechanism of hiding from the immune system of their human hosts: rapidly changing the proteins...
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Turritopsis Dohrnii, the immortal jellyfish The lifespan of all living organisms varies tremendously; some have lifespans measured in hours, some...
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Perplexing, isn’t it? Homo sapiens, as a species, have made it. There are now over 7 billion of us swarming...
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On the last day of my placement the psychiatric consultant told us, jokingly, that her children were banned from alcohol...
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We have all suffered the unpleasant sensation of pain, whether it’s caused by the intense throbbing of a stubbed toe...
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Most people probably wouldn’t put science and comedy together (well unless you include the invention of the whoopee cushion), but...
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Karin Valencia is a PhD student in Imperial's DNA Topology research group. The term ‘DNA structure’ may bring to mind...
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Liger and male handler The battle of the sexes is as old as time itself. George Gilder commented that “differences...
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Stop-motion genetic modification! Credit to Pen Hill, Lucy van Dorp, Sam Cavenagh, Vanna Barber and Luis Mulet Planelles. More >...
