Stephen Curry: Dan Davis's book, The Compatibility Gene, reveals unexpected influences on our lives of the human immune system
Cath Ennis: Sequencing the genomes of cancer cells lets us identify the mutations that drive the disease and develop drugs that target each mutation. But that's just the start of the story …
Sylvia McLain: Survival of the fittest? Darwin wasn't the first to say that
Athene Donald: It's an old but unsolved problem that requires new ways of shared working between physicists and biologists
Richard P Grant: The proliferation of various '–omes' betrays a deep-seated love of the irreverent
Richard Wintle: Stuck for that last-minute holiday gift? I have a suggestion for you. How about a shiny new personal genome sequence?
For less than half the price of an iPhone 5, you can spit in a tube and have a genetic analysis of your DNA sent to you by email. But does this geneticist really want to know?
Richard F Wintle: Sometimes the best way to do an experiment is to have someone else do it for you