Gene screen debate call
Kay Davies, the leading geneticist, yesterday called for a national debate on the implications of genetic testing for the individual and society. Launching a Ciba Foundation discussion on the issue...
Kay Davies, the leading geneticist, yesterday called for a national debate on the implications of genetic testing for the individual and society. Launching a Ciba Foundation discussion on the issue...
Aisling Irwing reports from the British Association for the Advancement of Science festival at Newcastle University. The study of top sports performers has a valuable role to play in research into...
Aisling Irwing reports from the British Association for the Advancement of Science festival at Newcastle University. Nature may operate more like a hippie commune than a Darwinian free market in some...
It was once assumed that molten granite took thousands or even millions of years to travel from its source deep within the earth to just below the surface. But this movement could take place over a...
Aisling Irwing reports from the British Association for the Advancement of Science festival at Newcastle University. By the end of the century the north-east of England should have a network of...
Aisling Irwing reports from the British Association for the Advancement of Science festival at Newcastle University. A jellyfish gene has been transplanted into a plant to make it glow when it is...
Aisling Irwing reports from the British Association for the Advancement of Science festival at Newcastle University. Smokers could avoid getting cancer by taking a chemical that zaps the carcinogens...
Union leaders might find it hard to believe, but the potentially precarious state of their organisations is a major worry for personnel chiefs in higher education. The implications of dwindling union...
(Photograph) - Go-getter: an electric car designed by engineers at the University of Wales, Cardiff, made its racing debut at Britain's first electric vehicle rally earlier this month. The car came...
More than half of Europe's high-flying graduates want to work for a multinational company - but they do not want a foreign boss. The main attractions of multinationals include working in foreign...
"Is economic history in decline?" Like all the best academic conference session titles it invited the response "It all depends what you mean by . .." Any such debate tends to have hints of the...
(Photograph) - Pray for today: Jan McDonald (left), professor of drama at Glasgow University, unveils a model of a proposed new centre for the study of theatre, film and television that has won...
Topics that have traditionally "scared the hell" out of the pharmaceutical industry will be discussed next week at an international conference organised by the University of Wales, Cardiff, and...
Alumni to be proud of nos 7 and 8: Overlooked in the media attention paid to the appointment of John Bercow as adviser to Virginia Bottomley, now shouldering responsibility for Britain's rich...
Steven Jay Gould, lecturing in London last week, revealed that even the most awe-inspiring of science writers can have problems with their editors. A paper he wrote on Darwin's drawing room at Down...