Stories
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Bringing biotech to the people
Amateur scientists have inspired all kinds of frightening scenarios, from Frankenstein’s monster to ‘The Fly’ and ‘Breaking Bad’. But it can be a force for good. Today’s DIYbio enthusiasts are having fun – and even making lucrative breakthrough discoveries.
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Is it really OK to not be OK?
Our mental healthcare system is still the poor relation of services that treat physical illness, and the pandemic has shone a spotlight on this situation. Campaigner James Downs argues for fundamental change.
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Sacred cows and nutritional purity in India
Apoorva Sripathi explores the complex reasons behind India’s recent boom in all things dairy – beginning with a 1970s Western food-aid programme.
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Intelligence testing, race and eugenics
Specious ideas and assumptions about intelligence that were born during the great flourishing of eugenics well over 100 years ago still inform the British education system today, as Nazlin Bhimani reveals.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Economic Development Board (EDB) Singapore
Date: 1996Reference: SB/1/2/267Part of: Sydney Brenner Collection- Books
National innovation systems / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.Date: 1997- Books
Managing national innovation systems / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Date: 1999- Books
Biotechnology and medical innovation : socio-economic assessment of the technology, the potential and the products / Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development.
Date: 1997- Books
Benchmarking industry-science relationships / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Date: 2002