Aslef general secretary DAVE CALFE looks at how rail workers and miners stood together against wage cuts 100 years ago – and why the legacy of collective action endures today
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Why the future of data is in our DNA
Forget USB drives, we can now store data – even text, music and video – in DNA, writes SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
An array of microscopic DNA spots showing expression levels of different genes
As Africa’s progressives aim to consolidate its anti-colonial programme, VIJAY PRASHAD reports on the US getting a military foothold in Ghana
KERRY FLECK explains how the annual event unites thousands in a celebration of workers’ power, culture and collective resistance
The former Nato chief stirred up dark historical undercurrents with his call to cut welfare for military spending, says SOLOMON HUGHES
The life of a modest Norfolk organiser contrasts with the dramatic rise and disappearance of a controversial figure in US labour, says MARK SEDDON
JACK YOUD explains how Salford City Council has taken on rogue landlords and won, setting an example to the rest of the country
IN every one of your body’s tissue cells there is one of the most information-dense storage materials that has ever existed: DNA.
Your genetic data contains the information that your body needs to grow, change and maintain each of the organs of your body and, even more apparently, unused information.
The data is stored in a sequence of four chemicals of the DNA molecule — the rungs of the famous helical ladder.
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