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Posted by Kat Arney, on 1 December 2023
With 2023 marking 40 years since the discovery of HIV, we're looking back over four decades of AIDS, from the earliest whispers of a mysterious new disease to fighting back ...Posted by Kat Arney, on 16 November 2023
In the latest episode of the Genetics Unzipped podcast, author and science journalist Rebecca Coffey chats with us about some amazing adaptations and Darwinian delights from her book, Beyond Primates. ...Posted by Kat Arney, on 2 November 2023
In the latest episode of the Genetics Unzipped podcast, we’re clocking in to chat about the genetics of circadian rhythms. How can molecules tell the time, why don’t we have ...Posted by Kat Arney, on 19 October 2023
In the latest episode of the Genetics Unzipped podcast, we’re exploring the weird and wonderful world of extrachromosomal DNA - what it is, what it does, and why it breaks ...Posted by tomoko Watanabe, on 5 October 2023
In June of this year, five secondary school teachers who teach BTEC and A levels students from Wales and Oxfordshire spent a week with us at the Department of Physiology ...Posted by Kat Arney, on 5 October 2023
We’re finding out how plants adapt to a changing environment, and how we might be able to give them a helping hand.Posted by Kat Arney, on 7 September 2023
We’re exploring the epic life of Alfred Russel Wallace; adventurer, naturalist and co-discoverer of natural selection. Biologist and author, Jim Costa, recounts the life of this often forgotten founding father ...Posted by Kat Arney, on 24 August 2023
In the latest episode of the Genetics Unzipped podcast, we're going "Vax to the Future" to look at the science behind DNA and RNA vaccines. How do they work? What ...Posted by Alex Eve, on 22 August 2023
I didn’t become aware of developmental biology (DevBio) until a lecture during my first year of undergraduate studies. From that moment on, however, I was hooked and even changed my ...Posted by Joyce Yu, on 15 August 2023
Five takeaways from ‘SciPEP 2023: New Insights for Communicating Basic Science’.