Life Sciences

The Myth Of Biological Selfishness

are all behaving altruistically so that one selfish gene can be passed on to future generations?  In ...

Article - Gerhard Adam - Feb 3 2010 - 12:20pm

Brain Crash, Brain Reboot, Jill Bolte Taylor and Self Transcendence

through all my nerve cells. The system had finally rebooted. I could finally sense my body, flex my ...

Blog Post - Richard Mankiewicz - Feb 27 2010 - 5:54am

The New Mito-Autism Study In JAMA

inexcusable to speculate beyond this study and extrapolate its findings to all autistic individuals. Much more ...

Article - Kim Wombles - Dec 13 2010 - 9:37am

"Is There A Mirror In Your Pocket? Cause I See Myself In Your Genes."

seeking across all sorts of domains – from substance use to sexuality. This study also provides further ...

Article - Becky Jungbauer - Dec 8 2010 - 2:56pm

Denisovans? Fossil Discovery Is Neither Modern Human Nor Neanderthal

of all non-Africans. One group of humans later came in contact with Denisovans, leaving traces of ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 22 2010 - 3:33pm

Biopunk: Hack Your DNA

be outsider-ish, I had a hard time seeing it.    They rely on PCs and the Internet, all run by big ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 28 2011 - 4:56pm

Horsetails And The Hidden Marriage

generations.  The main plants, for all the sexual show, are sporophytes.  Pollen grains are actually ...

Article - Robert H Olley - May 9 2011 - 2:32am

Going Topless: The Loss Of Top Predators Drives Ecosystem Shifts

dramatically, it will be very hard to avoid pressing all of our accessible land area — and most of our coastal ...

Article - Holly Moeller - Jul 13 2011 - 4:04pm

Epigenetic Changes In Genomes Happen A Lot, But They Rarely Last

plants grow in nature, where they are stressed all the time", says Becker. If this were paralleled ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 20 2011 - 2:00pm

Research That Goes Viral: An Argument For More Science 2.0 In Biology

says. “But we don’t fund these institutions at all well.” As Stern and Furman point out in the paper, ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 12 2012 - 11:53am