Streptomycetes are soil bacteria that could easily be mistaken for fungi, their cells snaking through the earth in ...

Most women who undertake IVF will have their embryos screened for genetic abnormalities. Clinics in some parts of the world also offer to select an embryo for implantation based on genetic markers for ...

The rape kit is a cardboard box containing ordinary items anyone might own: envelopes, combs, swabs, nail clippers. But the packaging together of these things in Chicago in the 1970s enabled the ...

Refugeehood is not supposed to be like this. The ideal envisaged by the Refugee Convention is that refugee status ...

There is truth in the superstition, medical validation for the old wives and their tales. A country’s maternal mortality rate (worryingly high in the UK) is measured as the number of deaths per ...

I am 22 weeks pregnant. During this pregnancy – my fourth; I have two children already and had a miscarriage in February – I have become unduly superstitious, increasingly preoccupied by the idea of ...

The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of ...

The day before James Watson arrived to deliver the 2013 Michael Davys Lecture in Oxford, I received an email from ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. After 9/11, George W. Bush launched a global War on Terror. What followed was an unprecedented expansion of American ...

From the revelations about Jimmy Savile in 2012 to the gender pay gap debacle in 2017, the BBC was for many years ...