Like father like son. We have all heard it one time or another. The layman explanation…
Category: Genetics news
A pinch of salt for CRISPR research
Unless you’ve been sitting in a cave for the last couple of years, you have probably…
Long lived dieting monkeys
Dieting is a commonly used term in our society (especially if you’re a woman), even when…
An out of phase clock’s relationship to aging
Everytime we travel across the Atlantic we realise the existence of our internal clock, mainly because…
What worms can teach us from aging. An interview with Olivia Casanueva
Olivia Casanueva is a successful woman in science. Not long ago she got an ERC Grant…
Leftie or rightie? Do not look to your brain for answers
What determines being left or right handed? As a scientific question might seem irrelevant, but actually…
Expresso or Americano? Look up your genome
Since we were kids (unless under the spell of a creationist education), we have been told…
Brown or blue?
Today’s post started as many do. As a discussion over coffee. These things DO happen. At…
Of love and other biochemical processes
Even though in fairy tales -and in Hollywood movies- it seems love’s forever and monogamy is…
Fingers that know it all
Many, many years ago,when I was still at university, during that horrible pre-exams period where everyone…