Why did the designers of the lovely new IDS building in Southampton choose to incorporate security pod entrance doors, which keep breaking down, cocooning staff like a member of Spinal […]

The Institute of Developmental Sciences (IDS) is to be officially opened here in Southampton on Monday 17th September. Costing upwards of £9 million, it is the proud new site of […]

I’ve been ruminating on Anil Cherukupalli’s excellent recent blog piece, The Artist in a Scientist. I don’t know, it’s difficult. But, reading the questions as put in the first paragraph, […]

After seeing the largest headline on the front page of last Sunday’s The Observer, I thought I should check the meaning of the word ‘news’. And I’m convinced that ‘*Scientists’ […]

I’ve just spent a muddy weekend at The Green Man Festival, where, one morning as I drank my £4 cafetière of Fair Trade coffee and waited for the caffeine to […]

In case you get tired with the ethical controversy that dogs human embryonic stem cell and ‘cloning’ research, consider just one disease – say, diabetes – and its importance is […]

Musing over the relationship between science and religion is especially pertinent in the present. Although often perceived as existing in a permanent state of antagonism, this is not the case: […]

In June 2005 I paid my second visit to the great city of San Francisco, to attend the annual conference of the International Society for Stem Cell Research. (Alright, so […]