Life Sciences

Nocturnal Owl Monkey Teaches Us Some Things About Primate Eye Evolution

all develop in the growing embryo from a single type of immature cell, called a retinal progenitor ...

Article - News Staff - May 18 2009 - 5:05pm

Stirring The Volcanic Pot For A Hydrothermal Origin Of Life

a series of linked reactions can occur on pyrite surfaces. But like all good hypotheses, there are other ...

Article - Dave Deamer - May 21 2009 - 2:10pm

The Issue of Altruism

neither sustain it under all circumstances, nor can they give it enough momentum to become ...

Blog Post - Gerhard Adam - Jun 4 2009 - 5:56pm

New research on a really freaking weird animal

animal on cameras, but it’s all the same individuals coming back,” Dr. Traeholt said. The results showed ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Jun 4 2009 - 7:38pm

Protein Cryptography And The Cell's Public Transportation System

an additive effect, so that the researchers did not have to try all 20^15 combinations-  just 20 ...

Article - Michael White - Jun 17 2009 - 4:50pm

In Schizophrenics, Autopilot Still Works, It's Just Different

example, you first of all remember a telephone number as a series of independent figures. But your working ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 23 2009 - 2:00am

'DNA Signature' Found In Human Sperm

Leeds study showed that in human and mouse sperm, not all of the DNA is packaged in the same way. While ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 3 2009 - 11:46am

'S' Is For Anticoagulant Protein

functional protein S die in utero with massive consumptive blood clots, which soak up all available clotting ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 6:56pm

Heart Regeneration A Step Closer

the number one killer, being responsible for almost a third of all deaths in the country, and where ...

Article - Catarina Amorim - Oct 10 2009 - 3:42am

Researchers Transform Embryonic Stem Cells Into Human Germ Cells

chromosomes by half.  The researchers even observed that some male germ cells went all the way through the ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 29 2009 - 3:38pm