Rapid advances in genetic science will raise challenging ethical questions for which society is unprepared, the scientist chosen to give this year's Royal Institution Christmas Lectures warns. More ...

Tim O'Brien on transient stars and science and music festivals Tamsin Mather on what volcanic plumes reveal about our planet Jennifer Doudna C. elegans is a rather special worm, so-named for the ...

Scientist's model organism, her simple lesson in life's complexity, is a one-millimetre-long nematode worm Alison Woollard gets full marks for thinking big. She will turn a tiny worm into Yuletide ...

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AN OXFORD scientist will use worms and chihuahuas to help explain life’s mysteries after being asked to deliver the prestigious Royal Institution Christmas Lectures. Oxford University genetics ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. They last roamed the Earth about 65 million years ago, but dinosaurs really could be brought back to life, a biochemist at Oxford ...

It’s looking extremely unlikely that we’ll ever be able to revive dinosaurs using their fossilized DNA, but if a British biochemist is right, we may be able to ...

Oxford biochemist says dinosaurs and Woolly Mammoths could be brought back to life Credit: Photo: PA They bestrode the earth millions of years ago before dying out, but dinosaurs could theoretically ...

Dinosaurs could be brought back to life...using the DNA of birds. In an echo of Jurassic Park, experts believe identifying and altering certain genes found in the DNA of modern birds would mean ...

Geneticist Alison Wollard shares with Jim Al-Khalili her enthusiasm for a tiny nematode worm, which could hold the key to people leading happier and healthier lives in old age. Show more C. elegans is ...

C. elegans is a rather special worm, so-named for the elegant way it moves in sinusoidal curves. It's studied, and much loved, by thousands of scientists around the world. Alison Woollard joined this ...