mutations of mortality

I watched Children of Men on DVD last night. I was luke warm about the book - the first part was moving and interesting, but the plot resolu...

I was reminded yesterday that I hadn't blogged for a week; was I still alive? Alive, certainly, but busy. I have been painting the back ...

Margaret Thatcher appeared frail last week when Gordon Brown welcomed her to 10 Downing Street as an honoured guest. he was only doing her t...

In my first report from the IWCLL I want to focus on chromosomes. FISH - fluorescent in-situ hybridization is the mainstay of chromosomal ex...

This week I have been at the IWCLL meeting in London. This meeting began many years ago in Paris and I have been to most of them. We were sh...

Rudolf Virchow was one of the two men who first described leukemia in 1845 (the other was John Hughes Bennett, an Englishman who was Profess...

As we come to the end of Mark chapter 13, how clued up are we about the Second Coming? There seems no doubt that He is coming. Not only does...

'Flags of our Fathers' is a remarkable film. Since the 1960s we have accepted the message that war is horrible and one wonders what ...

Notting Hill I enjoy watching, Four Weddings even more so; About a Boy was good and I really liked Love Actually, but I am afraid that Music...

The actors in this film were unaware of the story of William Wilberforce and even of John Newton. One wonders what is taught in schools toda...

If you haven't read 'The Tenderness of Wolves', the remarkable first novel by Stef Penney, I strongly recommend that you do. Set...

I have several games of patience on my computer. They are addictive and when I have a spare minute I often play a game. I limit myself. It t...

Apparently, Top Gear, the Jeremy Clarkson program about fast cars and boys' toys, is sold to 200 different countries and is even more po...

I have been reading 'Charlotte Gray' over the past week. Sebastian Faulkes is sometimes regarded as the greatest living English nove...

In the Garden of Gethsemane the closest disciples of Jesus fell asleep when they were supposed to be praying. "Watch and pray," co...

Little blogging this week, mainly because I have been doing my accounts for the tax man. This is the task that I hate the most. I suppose I ...

Anthony Walker, an 18-year old college student, promising athlete, and devout Christian, was hacked down and killed by racist, Michael Barto...

In the Dora region of Baghdad Iraqi Christians are being forced to pay jizya, a humiliating tax for being a Christian, or be forcibly conver...

Newsweek has this. China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission. According to a statement issu...

Legend of figure. Figure 1. Comparison of survival in months of patients with CLL with different degrees of sequence homology for IgVH genes...