Put some money on this October's Nobel laureate, folks. I think the prize has just been won by Cassian Yee from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Institute in Seattle.

Before I tell you what Yee and his team have achieved, take a look at why cancer of most sorts is so difficult to treat. Cancer cells are innovative, believe it or not. They mutate all the time, develop novel ways to evade anti-cancer drugs, and emerge with cells that are more robust, and multiply and spread easily. Essentially, it's like a parasite living inside the body that will, in due course, destroy its host.

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I'll use this entry to talk about something that is very close to my heart- Science. If you follow such things, you'll know that recently in Germany, kids as young as five are being presented with "science boxes" by world renowned engineering companies such as Siemens, Bosch and Thyssen-Krupp, with tasks that involve putting together electrical circuits that will light up bulbs, making a moving carousel, and so on. The idea behind this to stimulate a lifelong interest in science in very young children, who would then hopefully take up careers in engineering when they mature into young men and women. Germany's formidable engineering firms would thus never run dry of home grown scientists.

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