Hitting the headlines this week

• Sex bias in science: from who’s at the bench to what’s on the bench
• PLoS Medicine say thank you to their reviewers
• Ian McEwan’s “Solar“: where climate change science meets satire
• A “bacterial fingerprint” to fight crime?



Hitting the headlines this week

• Simon Singh says goodbye to his Guardian column
• The family genome
• Fancy some Pi this sunday?
• Debating the international trade of endangered species

Hitting the headlines this week

• Doctor at centre of MMR scandal failed children…but the media was also to blame
• Bill & Melinda Gates foundation pledges billions for vaccines
• Earthquakes are the deadliest natural disasters
• The 10:23 campaign…did you take your homeopathy overdose?

Hitting the headlines this week

• Happy New Year: Susan Greenfield homeless and jobless
• The “Big Freeze” still grips the UK
• The debate continues: does new retrovirus really cause chronic fatigue syndrome?
• Egyptian lead eyeliner may have protected against eye disease
• Celebrity science nuggets of 2009

Hitting the headlines this week

• The Climaate Change Summit comes to a conclusion….ish.
• Children in Afghanistan first to receive new polio vaccine
• Has dark matter been detected?
• Snow causes continued chaos to the Eurostar
• No booze for kids
• Philippines volcano likely to erupt soon

Hitting the headlines this week

• Mapping genetic diversity in Asia
• Scientists use Hollywood software for biology animations
• DOTS/Stop TB strategy cures 36 million of TB
• Impact of climate change on health
• Amazing scientific images from 2009

Hitting the headlines this week

• skunk users at greater risk of psychosis
• Obama to attend end of Copenhagen climate summit
• debate over drug companies and clinical trials still rages
• Cave spiders return home
• Would you eat lab grown meat?
• Measles deaths worldwide reduced by 78%, but more vaccinations needed to prevent the disease resurging.

Hitting the headlines this week

• no baguette bits in sight and the Large Hadron Collider at CERN is back on
• heavy rain and flood-warnings in the UK
• Belle du Jour gives a quick chat to New Scientist
• Evidence for person to person transmission of tamiflu-resistant swine flu
• warnings over counterfeit medicine…….watch out you might cough up a rat!
• challenge against patents for breast cancer genes goes to court