Researcher guests at Cheltenham Science Festival

Christine Hauskeller joins a discussion panel with the Festival Director. Senior Research Fellow Dr Hauskeller was one of a panel of guests discussing six 15-minute pieces of radio drama entitled 'Interior Traces'. The episodes illustrate the historic changes in the perception of disorders of the brain. They portray two fictional characters and how their predisposition to cancer and aggressive behavioural tendencies might be diagnosed and treated in 1930, in the present day and in 20 years’ time.

By EGenis,UK.

Technology Policy Resource.

Accommodation for migrant workers

Migrant workers come to the UK to seek employment but all too often find themselves living in expensive, overcrowded and poor-quality accommodation. This report seeks to make a fresh assessment of this important issue.

By BSHF, UK and Germany.

Technology Policy Resource.

Close Watertight Doors!

Egenis Co-director Steve Hughes reflects on drought tolerance in crop plants. Genetically modified crops that are drought resistant will be grown by farmers within four to five years, reported The Guardian, amond other publications. Professor Hughes offers some reflections on the implications of this widely publicised novel trait relating to drought tolerance in crop plants in the context of how plants get by when water runs low.

By E Genis, UK.

Technology Policy Resource.