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  Mexican marvels: DBC Pierre and the axolotls

  20 Jun 2012: Axolotls are salamander-like creatures that can regrow their limbs, jaws and even spines. DBC Pierre on why he is collaborating on a symphony inspired by the creatures he once kept as pets

• GM cotton problems

  20 Jun 2012: Letters: Researchers in China have discovered increased insect resistance and increased numbers of pests developing in and around GM cotton crops

• John Tomlinson obituary

  20 Jun 2012: Other lives: Plant pathologist and virologist who saved the British watercress industry

• Manchester's MadLab spends time with the FBI

  18 Jun 2012:

  The lively team from the Northern Quarter have just been in California for a conference designed to help the Feds keep up with 'DIY biologists' across the world. Asa Calow was one of them

• Your chance to name a species

  18 Jun 2012:

  Help us popularise 10 more British species by giving them a colourful common name

• Stem cell scientists urge MEPs not to cut funding for human embryo research

  15 Jun 2012: Stem cell scientists join forces with institutions and patient groups to counter anti-abortion campaigners' bid to end funding

• Girl, 10, has vein made from her own stem cells successfully transplanted

  14 Jun 2012:

  Swedish doctors believe landmark procedure could get cheaper as companies produce protein scaffolds more efficiently

• GM crops good for environment, study finds

  13 Jun 2012: Plants engineered to repel pests use less pesticides, allowing natural insect predators to thrive and spread to non-GM fields

• The clean-up begins on China's dirty secret – soil pollution

  12 Jun 2012: The Bonn Challenge is a global land restoration initiative that aims to tackle the issue that is increasingly concerning scientists

• Richard Dawkins wants evolutionary science to be 'the new classics'

  12 Jun 2012:

  Carole Jahme: Accepting an award from the British Humanists Association, Dawkins predicted great things for future scholars of evolution

• Mitochondria donation wins ethical approval for fertility treatments

  12 Jun 2012:

  Nuffield Council on Bioethics recommends acceptance of fertility techniques to prevent inherited mitochondria disorders

• Anne Warner obituary

  10 Jun 2012: Physiologist and director of the Centre for Mathematics and Physics in the Life Sciences and Experimental Biology at UCL

• Love and other animals

  10 Jun 2012:

  The whiptail lizard has found a novel way to cope with loneliness

• If dinosaurs weren't actually that big, what else don't scientists know?

  9 Jun 2012:

  Paul Barrett: News that dinosaurs were not the lumbering beasts that Jurassic Park led us to believe shows that science is not infallible

• The shifting Galápagos Islands - audio slideshow

  Audio slideshow, 8 Jun 2012:

  English biologist Godfrey Merlen has lived on the Galápagos Islands for 40 years. He describes how the unique environment has changed and how increasing human traffic is threatening the fragile and unique ecosystem

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