… ceremonies marking the 65th anniversary of the Normandy beach landings, undertaken in the knowledge of inevitable sacrifice in order to bring about the liberation of a Nazi-occupied Europe and […]

I was today looking over a (very likely unnecessary) ‘Figure’, in which remains a couple of absent panels, because this one has been repeatedly shoved back down the priority list: […]

Recently, a research charity organisation, which in the past has deemed my work worthy of funding, invited me to speak at one of their public events, wherein patients, relatives, fund-raisers, […]

On Tuesday, after showing my face for the morning’s lab meeting, I bunked off to catch a train up to London, being, as I was, in possession of a ticket […]

As one who occasionally hits an oily patch, and who very nearly took a match to the draft a few days ago, and has instead over-displaced these last couple of […]

Here in bike-thief-dom, I started today (having gotten up late), as I roused myself gently with Nicaraguan stimulant, listening to Melvyn Bragg’s In Our Time, which included discussion of Einstein’s […]

Why, why, why? can I not keep cells on glass?! I (anybody) can get them to stay on plastic, no problem. And they’re fibroblasts – bloody self-spot-welding limpets! Stick like […]