I am starting to plan my trip to China in earnest. I had pencilled it in for the end of February before someone kindly pointed out to me that this is the Chinese New Year and not the most propitious
Podcasting pandas for Nature
On Monday this week, I popped into Nature’s offices in London to talk about the panda genome paper for the podcast. I talk about enzymes for carnivores and herbivores, gut microbes and the interesting umami receptor. When podcast presenter Adam
Meat-eating pandas
I have finally got round to emailing George Schaller, a major figure in 20th century field biology, who carried out pioneering work on most of the world’s striking megafauna, including gorillas, lions, clouded leopards and, yes, pandas to cherry-pick just