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Workshops

Holiday workshops: Extract your own DNA (ages 9-11)

Thu 29 May 2025

Extract your own DNA and walk away with a small piece of it in a necklace for you to wear.

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Workshops

YSC Holiday workshops: Bacterial evolution (ages 15–18)

Tue 27 May 2025

Using restriction enzyme digests and gel electrophoresis, explore and analyse real bacterial DNA

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Talks and shows

The new chemistry of medical imaging

Sat 19 Jul 2025

Franklin Aigbirhio explores how the creation of new chemicals is improving our understanding of the human body.

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Family Fun Day

Family Fun Day: BIG science

Sat 19 Jul 2025

Join us for a fun day of activities all about science!

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Talks and shows

Our perfectly imperfect memories

Sat 17 May 2025

Ciara Greene explains how imperfections in the brain's memory recall are fundamental to our lives.

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Talks and shows

Decoding life with AI

Mon 07 Jul 2025

Mikhail Burtsev explains how artificial intelligence is helping to decipher genomes and accelerate medical discoveries.

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Workshops

Holiday workshops: Extract your own DNA (ages 12-14)

Thu 17 Apr 2025

Extract your own DNA and walk away with a small piece of it in a necklace for you to wear.

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Person looking at tube filled with DNA

Workshops

Holiday workshops: Extract your own DNA (ages 9–11)

Thu 17 Apr 2025

Extract your own DNA and walk away with a small piece of it in a necklace for you to wear.

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Talks and shows

Self Defence: A Myth-busting Guide to Immune Health

Sat 07 Jun 2025

World-leading immunologist Daniel M. Davis examines the research and technology that is revolutionsing our understanding of

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Workshops

Holiday workshops: An expanding universe of knowledge (ages 15–18)

Thu 17 Apr 2025

Find out how much we've now been able to discover about the universe in which we live, and how much there is still to find out!

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