English, Biology
Oxyntomodulin: a new therapy for obesity?
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Katie Wynne and Steve Bloom from Imperial College London, UK, describe their work on a hormone that could tackle the causes of obesity. |
Nicky Mulder, bioinformatician
 | Have you ever wondered what bioinformatics is? Or what a bioinformatician does? Sai Pathmanathan and Eleanor Hayes talk to Nicky Mulder, a bioinformatician at the European Bioinformatics Institute in Cambridge, UK. |
Imagine... sharing ideas in the life sciences
 | With the help of enthusiastic school students and scientists, the Dutch school competition ‘Imagine’ supports the sustainable production of biodiesel in Mozambique, avocado oil in Kenya and the colorant byxine in Surinam. Daan Schuurbiers and Marije Blomjous, from the Foundation Imagine Life Sciences, explain what Imagine is all about. |
Counting Buttons: demonstrating the Hardy-Weinberg principle
 | Pongprapan Pongsophon, Vantipa Roadrangka and Alison Campbell from Kasetsart University in Bangkok, Thailand, demonstrate how a difficult concept in evolution can be explained with equipment as simple as a box of buttons! |
Monastic ink: linking chemistry and history
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One of the many purposes of science is to support the humanities. With this in mind, Gianluca Farusi and his students set out to investigate and prepare iron-gall ink, a historically significant material for the transmission of knowledge. |
DNA labs on the road
 | Ever wished you could borrow a PCR machine for your lessons? And perhaps an expert to show your students how to use it? Marc van Mil introduces DNA labs that bring genomics directly to the classroom. |
Why biodiversity research keeps its feet dry
 | Marine ecologists Iris Hendriks, Carlos Duarte, and Carlo Heip ask why – despite its importance – research into marine biodiversity is so neglected. |
Sleep and learning exercises
For the main article, see Sleep and learning.
A Clone of Your Own?
By Arlene Judith Klotzko
Reviewed by Michalis Hadjimarcou, Cyprus
The Selfish Gene+ and Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think*
+By Richard Dawkins
*Edited by Alan Grafen and Mark Ridley
Reviewed by Bernhard Haubold, Fachhochschule Weihenstephan, Germany
