Streptomycetes are soil bacteria that could easily be mistaken for fungi, their cells snaking through the earth in ...

I’m starting to feel some pre-emptive nostalgia when I do a Google search. Yes, it’s true, search can sometimes take you to places you don’t want to go. But at least a ‘classical’ search engine like ...

Gutenberg remains unknowable: an implied but not a felt presence. This is true for all but a small number of 15th-century lives, of course, but it’s impossible to ignore the gulf between Gutenberg’s ...

The rape kit is a cardboard box containing ordinary items anyone might own: envelopes, combs, swabs, nail clippers. But the packaging together of these things in Chicago in the 1970s enabled the ...

Most women who undertake IVF will have their embryos screened for genetic abnormalities. Clinics in some parts of the world also offer to select an embryo for implantation based on genetic markers for ...

Most women who undertake IVF will have their embryos screened for genetic abnormalities. Clinics in some parts of the world also offer to select an embryo for implantation based on genetic markers for ...

Refugeehood is not supposed to be like this. The ideal envisaged by the Refugee Convention is that refugee status ...

There is truth in the superstition, medical validation for the old wives and their tales. A country’s maternal mortality rate (worryingly high in the UK) is measured as the number of deaths per ...

I am 22 weeks pregnant. During this pregnancy – my fourth; I have two children already and had a miscarriage in February – I have become unduly superstitious, increasingly preoccupied by the idea of ...