The battle over GM food has begun again and it seems there is little in common between those in favour of research and those opposed, other than a belief that they are right and the other side is wrong.

A contraceptive pill for men which works by preventing sperm development could result from the discovery of a new gene, scientists have said.

World's greatest racehorse returns from injury to take his unbeaten run to 10, and his trainer warns there is better to come

Resplendent in a tangerine toque and monitoring her middle-aged son with a manipulative, faux-beaten-dog wariness, Linda Marlowe's marvellous Mammles looks like the lost love child of Gloria Swanson and Albert Steptoe in Gene David Kirk's revelatory and richly entertaining revival of Mother Adam (1971).

A scientific review of genetic technology that can give tomorrow's athletes a helping hand

Scientists working on a new generation of genetically modified crops have sent an open letter to anti-GM protesters pleading with them not to destroy “years of work” by attacking their research plots.

A “sleep diet” may be the best way to slim for someone with an inherited tendency to put on weight, research suggests.

Four "Father Time" genes that help determine how fast we age have been uncovered by scientists.

This extraordinary, vast little book enacts Larkin's almost-instinct, almost true: what has remained of him is love. Tom Lubbock was art critic of this paper for many years until a brain cancer removed, inch by inch, his language and then he died, stupidly young.

DNA testing of traditional Chinese medicines has shown that many contain traces of endangered animals.

If you've ever had one too many and tumbled into bed with a vision, only to be greeted in the morning by a sight you'd gnaw off your own arm to escape, take heart. It won't make the memory any less painful, but you can take comfort from the fact that there is now academic underpinning for the effect known commonly as "beer goggles".

A skin-like plastic that "bleeds" when cut or scratched and then heals has been developed by scientists.

Some people may be at risk of a severe reaction to flu because they are not protected by a key gene, scientists believe.