Life Sciences

Synaptic Homeostasis- 'Spring Training' For The Brain

post-synaptic protein. All levels rose progressively during periods of wakefulness and fell after sleep. Other ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 2 2009 - 2:56pm

Time To Ditch Embryonic Stem Cells?

natural, and generally unnoticed, spontaneous abortions. If all of these very early embryos have souls, ...

Article - Michael White - May 6 2009 - 12:30pm

Selfish Gene Theory: It's Time To Ditch The Mantra

cooperation in all its forms, of which altruism is but a part. Let’s alter his proposition to see how it reads ...

Article - Steve Davis - May 23 2009 - 10:33am

Biological Meaning Of Selfishness, Cooperation, And Altruism – Part 2

species that acquired those resources. Therefore the driving force in all development was to either become ...

Article - Gerhard Adam - May 31 2009 - 3:24pm

Defining Competition- Biology Part 4

likely that offspring can be successfully raised. All of these events are clearly driven by ...

Article - Gerhard Adam - May 30 2009 - 7:08pm

Male Biological Clock And IQ: Much Ado About Nothing

no rationale to think that we would react much differently, at least qualitatively. Given all of the ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - May 29 2009 - 12:32am

How the KT Event and Dinosaur Extinction Shaped Your Genome

our perspectives on evolution once again. All genome data bear witness to the evolutionary process. ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Jun 23 2009 - 11:42am

Do computational biologists care about being right?

cycle based on a deterministic Boolean model from Li et al. (15). The main concern of all of these ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Aug 21 2009 - 11:58am

Vampire Squid Aren't Really Vampires

into anything that smells like money." [emphasis mine] This metaphor, and all its implications, ...

Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Sep 7 2009 - 7:58pm

Slime vs. Ink

in a lifetime. So! I could imagine a really determined squid covering all of Waihee with ink. But the ...

Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Sep 19 2009 - 1:24am