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16 June 2004
Hold the front page! Some white-coated genius somewhere has found a gene for violence: suddenly our streets will be a...
09 June 2004
Dalya Rosner asks whether microchimerism (literally an animal with parts made from lots of animals) causes female...
02 June 2004
The recent rush to denounce the Emmanuel City Technology College in Gateshead overwhelming. What is wrong with a state...
12 May 2004
What is a DNA fingerprint and how can it help you to solve crimes, identify a baby's father and suss out the best...
05 May 2004
My mother-in-law loathes science and loves science. She loathes science because it is used to bulldoze her opinion-...
28 April 2004
Imagine if you could turn your muscles into blood cells, or turning your bone marrow into muscle. How about changing...
14 April 2004
Cloning and genetic modification (GM) of organisms, including plants and animals, has enormous therapeutic potential....
07 April 2004
Animal models of disease help us to understand the molecular, cellular and chemical basis of disease, and to test new...