" I was painting in dark colors because my spirit was feeling dark." - An Interview with Helen Khal

The cards I was dealt: my life with familial hypercholesterolemia.

Myopia: was mother right about reading in the dark?

It Was Heaven: An Interview with Evelyn Witkin

Evelyn Witkin came of age at the dawn of bacterial genetics. In 1941 and with World War II looming, she began her PhD studies at Columbia University, and soon, with her very first experiment, she serendipitously cracked open a new field of research by discovering bacteria resistant to ultraviolet (UV) light. Witkin’s journey from UV resistance to DNA mutagenesis and repair spanned 50 years, tak...

How my genome was hacked

My home was my castle: Evictions and repossessions in Britain

Using data for 1991 to 1997 from the British Household Panel Survey we investigate the incidence of housing finance problems, evictions and repossessions. Previous research on repossessions and problematical housing debt has focused on cross-sectional data. This paper contributes uniquely to the literature by examining the sequence of household and individual events associated with housing arre...