...Sir John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent. Gurdon's majo...

It's that time of year again! The 2012 Nobel Prizes will be handed out this week. Oct. 8th will be the first, in Physiology or Medicine....

From the Daily Mail's website (where else) comes the following headline : That's a pretty weighty claim. Do babies born via C-s...

Though nothing drastic. I've made some changes to the Blogroll on the right. I removed a couple of blogs which are no longer active, and...

A few years ago ( when my blog was a bit more active than it is today) I wrote up a post rebutting the old creationist canard that evoluti...

Care of The Telegraph comes this sensationalist little blurb :   If the fact that the "earliest human ancestor" is eel-like do...

They all converge into one singularity of awesome over at Botany, Bugs and Bunkum . It's a new blog, set up by a good friend of mine. If...

From Ed Yong's blog Not Exactly Rocket Science , comes this infographic that pretty much sums up the Scientist vs Science Journalist deb...

Today the 2011 Nobel Prize in Medicine/Physiology was awarded. This year's Laureates are Bruce A. Beutler and Jules A. Hoffmann for thei...

This Monday (October 3rd) marks the beginning of Nobel Prize season. The prize in Medicine/Physiology is awarded on Monday, with Physics on ...