TV Review: Horizon - What Makes Us Human?
Perhaps we are not so different from chimps? Not so, Professor Roberts says; it is us who are experimenting on them, putting them in enclosures and making TV programmes about them...
Simon Hazelwood-Smith is a Volunteer Writer at BioNews, and is currently studying for an MSc in Science and Technology Policy at the University of Sussex. Previously, he studied Biological Sciences at the University of Birmingham, and went on to work at Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital's Molecular Genetics Laboratory and in Dr Michael Simpson's Genomic Medicine Group at King's College London's Division of Genetics and Molecular Medicine.
Perhaps we are not so different from chimps? Not so, Professor Roberts says; it is us who are experimenting on them, putting them in enclosures and making TV programmes about them...
Scientists have for the first time been able to switch on and off the effects of a genetic disease, myotonic dystrophy, in human muscle tissue...
I'd not been to a Cafe Scientifique event before and was a little unsure of what to expect. The Royal Brompton coffee shop setting did at first feel strange; I'm more used to discussions in lecture theatres where there is a clear distinction between audience and speaker...
One of the essential components of a computer, the transistor, has been created in a living biological system for the first time...
Human semen quality may rise and fall in seasonal variation, with the best quality being produced in the winter and spring...
A US team of researchers has shown it is possible to link whole genome sequence data to a specific person, using only publicly available information....
Genetic mutations are not the only contributing factor in the growth of cancerous tumours, say scientists...
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