Like a Virgin (39 page)
Authors: Aarathi Prasad
Venter, Dr Craig
Venus of Hohle fels
Verkuyl, Douwe
Villareal, Luis
Vinci, Leonardo da
Victorian Era Exhibition
viral DNA
viruses
virgin births
asexual species, survival of
first mammal
Virginia Aquarium
VVF (vesico-vaginal fistulae)
Waldeyer-Hartz, Heinrich von
Washington Post
Weismann, August
Wells, H.G.
whiptail lizard
Whiting, Audrey
Winston, Lord Robert
womb
artificial
transplants
women, as living incubators
Women & Infants Hospital
Women’s Protection League of India
World Conservation Union
worms, parasitic
Wyatt, Charlotte
Yale University
Zuk, Marlene
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Aarathi Prasad is a biologist and science writer. She has appeared on TV and radio programmes, including as presenter of Channel 4’s controversial
Is It Better to Be Mixed Race?
and
Brave New World
with Stephen Hawking, as well as BBC Radio 4’s
The Quest for Virgin Birth
, and written for
Wired
, the
Guardian
, and many other publications.
Previously a cancer genetics researcher at Imperial College London, she subsequently moved out of the lab and into the worlds of science communication and policy, in areas including the passage in
the UK Parliament of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008. A single mother, Dr Prasad lives in London.