Prose and Passion

The idea of treating diseases by fixing faulty genes was big in the late 90s, but then suffered some serious setbacks. Thanks to new vectors...

Intrinsic disorder in proteins has fascinated me ever since 1997, when Kevin Plaxco asked me to co-author a News & Views piece (1) on wh...

... is the kind of inspiration that you only have after a few glasses of schnaps, and which may turn out not quite so inspired once you'...

Migration in my family tree normally works like this – direct ancestors coming in (eg from Wallonia ), and aunts/uncles going out (eg to Bra...

I had a feature on the shrinking arctic sea ice a couple of years ago , so here comes the southern counterpart. Apart from the concerns over...

Many DNA viruses pack their DNA so tightly inside their capsids (protein shells) that the molecular chain can no longer move and remain froz...

Continuing the theme of obscure composers , the young cellist recently played Souvenir de Curis, a piece for four cellos by the Belgian cell...

The Sicilienne by Gabriel Fauré is a popular repertoire piece for both flautists and cellists, but here comes the version for cello and (a ...

Today's issue of Current Biology has a special section on applied neuroscience, and my contribution to that is a feature on depression: ...

I've been following the work of industry painter Alexander Calvelli for many years now (I happen to know him as he's the son of my ...

My latest book in German is officially released today: Invasion der Waschbären und andere Expeditionen in die wilde Natur Wiley-VCH 17. Se...

Graphene - a single layer of graphitic carbon - has caused some excitement in recent years, but there's always the slight inconvenience ...