M y composer friend wants to be quite modern about creating beautiful music.  He doesn't like to use computer programs for composing but...

I n Samuel Beckett's cryptic play, Waiting for Godot , two men spend the entire play anticipating the arrival of someone, Godot, at whic...

O ne of our favorite BBC Radio4 programs is called In Our Time (available as downloadable podcast or to play on line).  Every week, host Me...

O n Friday, in acknowledgement of Rare Disease Day, our daughter Ellen blogged about living with a rare disease.  She wrote eloquently abou...

R egardless of whether or not some geneticists object to the cost or scientific cogency of the currently proposed Million Genomes project, i...

I t was about 70 years ago that the complex problem of anemia, malaria, and genetic interactions, with their relation to hemoglobin was firs...

I f the way of ushering in modern science in the 1600s was largely based on instruments such as lenses and clocks, the 1700s became an age o...

It's just the way it is now. This headline. This story. (click to read/hear) As Genetic Sequencing Spreads,   Excitement, Worri...

Everyone makes mistakes ...but geneticists make them more often.  A Comment in this week's Nature, "Methods: Face up to false posi...

Metaphysical ideas imposed on the world as if they were derived from the world go against the nature of modern science and bear similarity ...