Science books to peruse this pandemic winter

Sonia Shah, Rita Colwell, Luke O’Neill and Fergus Shanahan inform and delight

One man’s waste, another’s treasure: The rise of faecal transplants

There might be a time when you won’t bat an eyelid if offered someone’s poop as a therapy

Scientific talent in Ireland needs to be backed by investment

Global biopharma giant AbbVie is backing two new multimillion projects here

They love your guts: microbes and what your diet does to them

Studies have uncovered links between particular foods and a healthy diversity in our intestinal ‘populations’

Ingredient research for better heart health

The prospect of more effective cholesterol lowering food ingredients has now been opened up

Old idea is revived to help fight bad bacteria in the gut

Sixty years of DNA: ‘It changed our understanding of life’

On April 25th, 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick published one of the greatest biological discoveries of our time. It was so profound that, from solving crimes and finding horse meat in burgers to creating designer babies, we still benefit from – and grapple with – new consequences