This is another archival repost of something originally written for the old blog in Oct 2007. I apologise for the half-hearted post. I had hoped to write a lot more, but was foiled by migraine, and ran into the deadline: today is “Blog Action Day“! New words are created every […]
This is another archival repost from the old blog, originally from july 2007. I started writing this over a month ago, but may have got a little distracted. I’m not entirely sure what point it was supposed to be making anymore, but I do remember that, because it was supposed […]
This is another archival repost from the old blog, this one from May 2007. The Hollow Man was on the television the other day, confirming once again my belief that hollywood lacks the imagination to make sci-fi even a fraction as interesting as real science. There was, however, a most […]
A few weeks ago I blogged about Down’s syndrome, and this week about cancer and cancer cytogenetics. I’ve spotted loads of things I neglected to mention about cancer, but there’s one thing I deliberately left for another post, because it’s something I’m less familiar with and wanted to read a […]
This is another archival repost originally written for the old blog in april 2007. Bacteria tend to get ignored to some extent by writers of popular science and science blogs, except in the context of disease and medicine. There is a general assumption that, as single celled organisms, they must […]
This is another archival repost from the old blog — this one from march 2007. I wrote this for a one hour timed essay for the “medical genetics” module and the lecturer picked it out for special commendation for its “novel and elegant organisation and presentation,” so I thought I’d […]