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Last week saw my appearance before the House of Commons Select Committee on Science and Technology, giving oral evidence into their enquiry into Bioengineering (with its focus on stem cells, genetic modification and synthetic biology) My fellow witnesses on the day were Professor Sir Martin Evans, the discoverer of embryonic stem cells, and Professor Richard Kitney, a leader of the Centre for Synthetic Biology and Innovation at Imperial College, London (and Chair of a report by the Royal Academy of Engineering). The Committee asked some very penetrating but fair questions, and clearly understood the many important issues. The unedited transcript will soon be available, while the video recording of the session will be available from the website for a month. Overall it was an interesting and surprisingly enjoyable experience.
Continue reading: Bioengineering and systems biology
This first blog after the noughties is purposely something of a miscellany, though while working up a link to the word potpourri, I did notice that the Wikipedia version contains the somewhat deadpan comment “Modern homes avoid having pots of moldly [sic] substances laying about, and potpourri is usually purchased in stores.” This one is available online.
Our final news item of 2009 concerned the BBSRC-funded ‘robot scientist’ project, aimed at the automation of scientific reasoning (and experimentation), which made Time magazine’s ‘top ten scientific discoveries of 2009’.
Continue reading: A potpourri for 2010
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