you want to know why I find biology interesting, it's this. From 2017, and still genius and beautiful, and there's an hour of commentary.

Reading: Scalable synthetic biology revolutionizes targeted therapy with logic-gate proteins, News Medical, 10 October 2025.This is right up my street: building up a logic gate in a protein. It goes something like this. You have some therapeutic payload (a drug, say), connected (tethered) to other molecules that are...

The British Society for Research on Ageing (BSRA) has started running public lectures under the banner of "Understanding Ageing: Meet the Scientists". The first was from Janet Lord, Professor of Immune Cell Biology at the University of Birmingham. The main takeaway from the lecture was: your immune system doesn't work...

Reading Reverse Engineering of Biological Complexity, Csete & Doyle (2002), Science, vol 295, p. 1664. Sometimes I read something and I'm overjoyed with how well it’s written and how interest it is. This is one of those papers, mainly focused on how robustness needs of real-world systems drives the architecture in...

Reading a paper from way back in 2002: Can a biologist fix a radio?—Or, what I learned while studying apoptosis, Yuri Lazebnik in Cancer Cell. To understand what this flaw is [in how biologists approach problems], I decided to follow the advice of my high school mathematics teacher, who recommended testing an approach...