mutations of mortality

The large mountain sometimes seen from Seattle is called Mount Rainier (pronounced 'raneer'). If you can't see the mountain it...

Tomorrow most of my family will be in America. Diane and I will be visiting Richard in Seattle and David will be in Florida working at some ...

Caves spotted on Mars : Dark 'skylights' could be openings to Martian shelters. The headline writer in Nature seems to have missed ...

This from New Scientist NICE, the body the looks at the cost-effectiveness of new treatments, has been operating in the UK for the past 8 ye...

Nikola Tesla, 10 July 1856 - 7 January 1943, was a world-renowned inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer and electrical engineer. He was ...

Further to the debate on academic freedom was this from the Sunday Telegraph of March 11th this year. Scientists who questioned mankind'...

Have you heard of TANK cells ? It stands for tumor activeated natural killer cells. Natural Killer cells are part of the non-specific immune...

I quote from the Wikipedia article. The word paradigm comes from the Greek word παράδειγμα (paradeigma) which means "pattern" or ...

My visit to the House of Lords was to attend a meeting about academic freedom. You may be surprised at the suggestion that academic freedom ...

Allen (Jack) Latham Jr. died in August, 2003, at the age of 95. He is most famous for creating, in 1968, an inexpensive plastic chamber for...

The Anglican Archdiocese of Sydney is unique in having two brothers to supervise it, one Archbishop and the other Dean of the Cathedral. Phi...

Edwin Joseph Cohn, was born in New York City in 1892, the son of Abraham and Maimie Einstein Cohn. His father was a highly successful tobacc...

Supposing I told you that there was a drug being developed for CLL which killed CLL cells in the test tube, but had absolutely no effect on ...

During the 1800s people moved off the land, which made it difficult for them to get hold of fresh dairy products. Milk that took up to 24 h...

I have been silent for a while as I have been preparing for three events in London that took place this week. The first on Tuesday morning w...

In a meeting in London yesterday listening to the young men argue and thinking, "What do they know?" I was shocked to find that th...

Psalm 99 is an evocation of the character of God. It begins, "The LORD reigns." This a something we seldom remember. Or we think o...

An interesting article by Karen Davis (President of the Commonwealth Fund; Head of Health Policy at the US Department of Health 1977-91) has...

The comment is a little late, but England have won a cricket match against Australia. Astonishingly, the team of no hopers have won the trop...

This is another section on consolidation therapy to follow on from the section on bone marrow transplantion. An alternative approach with po...