My lab in Manchester has just released a fascinating research paper that touches on the lovely scientific elements of serendipity, hypothesis falsification and surprise results. This paper has continued the great scientific tradition of generating more questions than answers. Have you ever wondered how does your body knows when it’s damaged? After your sprain your […]

What is the point of having a blog if you are not going to engage in off-the-cuff speculation. So here goes- Every one of our genes is under constant threat of mutation from radiation, free radicals and merely being mis-copied during replication (just to name a few). So it stands to reason that genes that […]