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Biology Bytes: A Stem Cell-Focused Book for the Public

Posted by , on 22 September 2013

I recently published a book, called Biology Bytes: Digestible Essays on Stem Cells and Modern Medicine, which is on stem cells and other medical-related topics, and thought it would be ...
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Review: Electric shock

Posted by , on 7 February 2013

Last year, Matter launched, after a successful  Kickstarter campaign, as a magazine that publishes only long, well-written articles related to “science, technology and the ideas shaping our future”. Each issue ...
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Book review: Theme and variations on biology and civilisation

Posted by , on 27 December 2012

This book review originally appeared in Development. Alfonso Martinez Arias reviews “Cells to Civilizations: The Principles of Change that Shape Life ” by Enrico Coen. Book info: Cells to Civilizations: ...
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Book review: Updated interpretation of the principles of neural development

Posted by , on 20 December 2012

This book review originally appeared in Development. Tatsumi Hirata reviews “Neuronal Guidance: The Biology of Brain Wiring ” (Edited by Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Alex L. Kolodkin). Book info: Neuronal Guidance: ...
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Book review: Life and the matrix

Posted by , on 13 December 2012

This book review originally appeared in Development. Charles Streuli reviews “Extracellular Matrix Biology ” (Edited by Richard O. Hynes and Kenneth M. Yamada). Book info: Extracellular Matrix Biology. Edited by ...
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Book review: Everything you always wanted to know about auxin but were afraid to ask

Posted by , on 6 December 2012

This book review originally appeared in Development. Sabrina Sabatini reviews “Auxin Signaling: From Synthesis to Systems Biology ” (Edited by Mark Estelle, Dolf Weijers, Karin Ljung and Ottoline Leyser). Book ...
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Book review: An introduction to decoding genomes

Posted by , on 29 November 2012

This book review originally appeared in Development. Jennifer Mitchell reviews “Introduction to Genomics” (by Arthur M. Lesk). Book info: Introduction to Genomics By Arthur M. Lesk. Oxford University Press (2011) ...
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Mammalian epigenetics in biology and medicine - NEW from Royal Society Publishing

Posted by , on 27 November 2012

Royal Society Publishing has just published Mammalian epigenetics in biology and medicine, compiled and edited by Fumitoshi Ishino,Yoichi Shinkai and Emma Whitelaw. See – http://bit.ly/RGO3Y0 for further details or you ...
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What does a cell know and how does it know it (Just a thought on Dennis Bray’s Wetware, Yale University Press) Alfonso Martinez Arias (Dpt Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge UK. ama11@hermes.cam.ac.uk)

Posted by , on 10 May 2012

It is a time of gene counting, mapping, function guessing in a narrow way: a gene for this or a gene for that. If one reads the indexes of journals ...
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Of velvet worms and water bears: a review of ‘The Animal Kingdom: A Very Short Introduction’ by Peter Holland

Posted by , on 1 March 2012

The Metazoa, our corner of the great assemblage of life, is a curious and fascinating topic, but one that is relatively obscure in these days when a great many of ...
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