TV Review: Science Britannica - Frankenstein's Monsters
In this first episode of his new series, Cox 'grapples with science's darker side, asking why it often gets such a bad press'...
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Image by Peter Artymiuk via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts the shadow of a DNA double helix, on a background that shows the fluorescent banding of the output from a DNA sequencing machine.
Radio Review: Inside the Ethics Committee - Genetic Testing in Children
In this episode of Radio 4's Inside the Ethics Committee, we hear about Rachel's strong desire for her children to be tested for an inherited disease, Li-Fraumeni syndrome...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
'Female chromosome' might make a man a man
The 'female' X chromosome has been shown to contain several genes that may be involved in sperm production...
