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I met Matt Ridley once, when he was at The Economist , and I wrote a piece for him (I didn't repeat the experience because their fees at...

The thylacine is a near-mythic animal. A marsupial related to the kangaroo, it was wiped out early in the last century, surviving just long...

When I wrote a piece for the Guardian four years ago called " Googling the Genome ", it was more of a metaphor than a specific wa...

One of Larry Lessig's favourite tropes is that we live in a read-write world these days, where creation is just as important as consump...

One sphere where openness is generally acknowledged as indispensable is politics: true democracy can never be opaque. In the past, providin...

Good Craig: Craig Venter, the controversial DNA researcher involved in the race to decipher the human genetic code, has built a synthetic ch...

So Jim Watson's genome will soon be made public . But not all of it: the only deliberate omission from Watson's sequence is that of...

Another reason to understand openness : When a team of geneticists unlocked the secret of the bug's rapid evolution in 2005, they found ...

This is what happens when the genetic code of an animal matters, as here, with "the world's first scientifically-proven hypoaller...

This stuff is getting too easy. First, find some ancient remains - Croatian Neanderthal bones are great. Next, sequence lots - at least 20...

My heart leapt last week upon seeing the latest issue of Nature magazine. The front cover showed the iconic picture of Watson and Crick, ...