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This post is the result of a chance enquiry from a colleague who asked what inom thought of the work of F.Inigo Thomas. If you’ve never heard of him don’t worry. Luckily I remembered being impressed by a visit to Athelhampton, one of the gardens he designed. Then I remembered he had provided most of the illustrations for Reginald Blomfield’s The Formal Garden in England in 1892, so could waffle a bit more, but after that I was a bit stumped, so it was off to do a bit more research. If you like formal gardens then inom think you’ll be impressed too because, as Thomas himself said, “I think, as a nation, we are beginning once more to realise the charm of a formal garden.”
Francis Inigo Thomas was born on Xmas Day 1865. His father was a clergyman, a younger son in a very well-connected landed family whose family seat was at Ratton just outside Eastbourne in Sussex. After school at Haileybury College, [about ten years later than Reginald Blomfie
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In the past decade, genome sequencing of tumours has revolutionised our understanding of the genetics of cancer. This has revealed that most cancers carry thousands of mutations in their genomes, accumulated through the lifetime of their cells. However, owing to technical limitations, little is known about the earliest steps of cancer and how normal cells in our tissues accumulate mutations during ageing and in different diseases.
In 2015 we published the first comprehensive description of somatic mutation and selection in a healthy solid tissue, revealing that human skin is a patchwork of thousands of competing clones carrying cancer-driver mutations (Martincorena et al., 2015). At that time, it was unclear whether sun-exposed skin was an exceptional tissue, owing to a lifetime of sun damage. In subsequent studies we described similar patterns in normal oesophagus (Martincorena et al., 2018) and bladder (Lawson et al., 2020).
These findings revealed how little we know about how o
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It was in the Galleria degli Uffizi, just in front of the Botticelli’s Primavera that Iñigo, a full-time evolving human being and part-time industrial engineer, felt the beauty. He was looking at Flora, the goddess of flowers, at her smile, her hair and the details of her clothes, when he realized that even static things can overwhelm us.
“I think that is the feeling that beauty leaves in our bodies”, says Iñigo, who was born in Vitoria, the capital city of the Basque Country, surrounded by perretxikos and snails. At the age of 14, he had to move with his family to the other side of the Atlantic.
Santiago de Chile, the seventh most inhabited city in Latin America and the one of Neruda and Gabriela Mistral’s verses, was their home for five years. Iñigo enrolled in industrial engineering at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, but before finishing his degree there, he returned to Spain. He graduated from the