To Wear or Not to Wear: Changing social norms with regard to eyewear Studying the history of spectacles brings together the twin themes...
The fragile biology of social genes and the evolution of human societies Work with different animal species has shown that a mutation...
Sickle Cell Disease: A Cultural History Please note this lecture was rescheduled from its original date...
Eye on the Future: How can modern scientific knowledge help to prevent blindness Gene therapy, stem cells antibodies, RNA interference and nanotechnology have...
The Next Disruptive Technologies: New Ways to Treat Old Diseases This lecture offers a survey of the brilliant new breakthroughs...
Return of the Microbes: How infections are once more taking over A number of infectious diseases cause blindness. After decades of...
The Ethical Challenges of New Treatments in Children: Could we do now what we did then? A lecture to consider some important ethical issues, past and...
Aggression: the biology of war and peace Aggression lies at the heart of biological competition but its...