Life Sciences

Origins Of Nervous System Found In Genes Of Sea Sponge

calculated across all those domains at once (column 1). Comparison of the conservation of binding residues ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 5 2007 - 8:49pm

Study Reveals A Deeply Hidden Layer Of The Transcriptome

postdoctoral researchers Junshi Yazaki, Ph.D and Jose Alonso, Ph.D., all at the Salk Institute, post-doctoral ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 31 2007 - 12:41am

Molecular Identity Crisis- A Ribozyme Without RNA

in evolution." It is still unclear why only animal mitochondrial RNase P and not all ribozymes ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 3 2008 - 1:27pm

New Species Of Leprosy Identified

variation in the 16S rRNA gene had been noted at all.  Analysis of the other five genes turned up more ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 24 2008 - 2:27pm

Microbe Evolution 2.5 Billion Years Ago Began The Aerobic Nitrogen Cycle

today. "All microbes are amazing chemists compared to us. We're really very boring, ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 20 2009 - 12:14am

How Single-Cell Organisms Evolve Into Multicellular Ones

whip-like flagella in the same direction, so that all of the flagella would work together to control the ...

Article - Michael White - Feb 20 2009 - 4:44pm

Belief Systems- Part 2

organization, straight lines, tended gardens, etc.) are all external reflections of this organizing principle in ...

Blog Post - Gerhard Adam - May 31 2009 - 2:31pm

Reproduction: No Surprise, Inbreeding Depression Is Not Random

genome.    In oligonucleotide microarray analysis, gene expression of a whole genome can be studied all at ...

Article - Hayley Mann - Mar 20 2009 - 12:33am

Scientists Quantify Beak Variation In Darwin's Finches

one another), with changes in length and depth, we can then collapse all beak shapes onto a common ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 7:03pm

Stem Cell Study Reveals Genome-Wide Pause Button

all genes," Young said. "The polymerases come for a visit and then they pile up downstream ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 29 2010 - 1:40pm