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developmental and stem cell biologists
Posted by Kat Arney, on 10 November 2021
Hormones: The Inside Story, the podcast uncovering the science and the stories about hormones and health, is back for a second series.Posted by Kat Arney, on 4 November 2021
We're getting in harmony with the science of music. Is there a music gene? Does musical talent really run in families? And how does the inability to perceive music impact ...Posted by Kat Arney, on 21 October 2021
We look back on some of the most mind-blowing stories from the world of genetics in 2021, from Borgs to duck-billed platypuses.Posted by Kat Arney, on 7 October 2021
We explore the science behind one of the most remarkable but often overlooked organs in the mammalian body: the placenta.Posted by Kat Arney, on 23 September 2021
We take a look at how we learned to read the book of life, from the earliest days of DNA sequencing to the very latest futuristic technologies.Posted by the Node, on 20 September 2021
Royal Society Publishing has recently published a special issue of Philosophical Transactions B: Synchrony and rhythm interaction: from the brain to behavioural ecology compiled and edited by Michael D Greenfield, Henkjan Honing, Sonja ...Posted by Kat Arney, on 9 September 2021
We drop in on the Robinson Crusoe islanders to learn about their story and discover what their genes can teach us about speech and language development.Posted by Kat Arney, on 26 August 2021
We’re taking a trip back in a virtual time machine, soaking in the primordial soup to discover the origins of life.Posted by Kat Arney, on 12 August 2021
We wind the clock back thousands of years to discover the stories of Denisovans and direwolves that researchers are now able to read in DNA left in bones or even ...Posted by Kat Arney, on 29 July 2021
Dr Kat Arney reads an exclusive excerpt from her recent book, Rebel Cell: Cancer, evolution and the science of life, which is out in paperback in the UK on 6th ...