Just a quicky - something I learned about myself this Bank Holiday weekend. Yesterday, I met a lady who we are going to making a documentary with for my course. She was extremely inspirational, having had hydrocephalus for all of…
The scientific method, although with variations, goes something like this: a group of scientists get together and come up with a theory. They make predictions based on this theory, and then set up an experiment to test the theory. In…
Would you eat meat that has been grown in a lab rather than taken directly from the animal? This is a question that I've been asking as preparations for the first lab-grown burger to be cooked are happening. Prof Mark…
Not a lot, right? I mean, I could be Jo, Louise, Carla or Julie, but I don't think it changes my personality. And an apple? Well it's an apple. Whatever we call it, it doesn't change the piece of fruit…
This originally appeared on Pythagoras Trousers episode 123 on May 16th 2013. For this podcast I spoke to Thomas Landrain, the founder of La Paillase, a DIY Biology lab in Paris. I wanted to share this piece on here because…
If you're anything like me, the term Bitcoin would have meant very little. When glancing at the word, it could have either meant a part of a coin, or a coin worth one bit (a small packet of data on…
So, as you may have noticed, I've become rather interested in synthetic biology. It's new, it's exciting, and no one is quite sure how it will progress, which puts everyone in unchartered waters. I like unchartered waters. Sailing into the unknown,…
It seems like a simple and neat idea doesn't it: bringing two communities together that are working to solve similar problems in different ways, to see if they can solve the problems together. Two minds are better than one, great…
One of the biggest challenges I've come across when doing interviews for a radio piece or podcast, is that you have to be able to do many things at once: listen to the speaker, follow your set questions, remember things…
My thoughts, memories, and uptakes of the days' events. Today has been about exploring the public perception of, and public engagement with synthetic biology and conservation biology. The question asked to the panel this morning was: The public landscape of…
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