Of course that is not true, your great grandpas were human. However, it has been known for a while that big chunks of your DNA is from viruses. Retroviruses such as HIV reproduce themselves by copying their genetic material, which is actually in the form of RNA not DNA, into DNA which is then incorporated into […]
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This semester 16 of our BSc students have returned from a year spent working in companies and labs – they do this having already spent two years studying in lectures and labs at Surrey. The talks were good, as always, and as always the range of topics were very broad. I saw half the talks (I […]
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Of course as a research scientist I write and publish scientific papers, but for the first time I recently wrote, with a Nature Materials editor, a News and Views article. These articles discuss in terms the main findings and implications of an important research article. Writing the News and Views article was an interesting experience.
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On Friday I was at a meeting in which most of the speakers were scientists working in the pharmaceutical industry. It was at the Royal Society of Chemistry’s London office which is just off Piccadilly in London. This was handy as there is an iron law of scientific meetings: The coffee is terrible. At lunch […]
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