Life Sciences

In The Topi Antelope 'Battle Of The Sexes', Females Are The Pursuers

conceive at all, Bro-Jørgensen added. He noted that this reversed sexual conflict might not be a rarity in ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 29 2007 - 12:23pm

Gene Expression In Social Settings? Turned On Females, Turned Off Genes

suggest that the gene sets they studied could be involved in orchestrating mating responses in all ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 10 2007 - 5:59pm

Insect Study Questions Standard Eusociality Explanation

Eusociality has evolved only a few times, and not all of them were in haplodiploid species. Furthermore, the ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 2 2008 - 3:41am

Bacterial Genomes And Evolution

become aware of this only second hand, some creationists apparently have suggested that all bacterial ...

Article - T. Ryan Gregory - Jan 24 2008 - 4:50pm

Why Would Advisors Encourage Students To Publish?

expect a return on their investment. This does not mean that all science must be done for some specific ...

Article - T. Ryan Gregory - Jan 12 2008 - 11:04am

Genome Size, Code Bloat, And Proof-by-analogy

after all, disease-causing mutagens), but also in terms of bulk effects on cell division, cell size, and ...

Article - T. Ryan Gregory - Feb 5 2008 - 8:46am

Genes Related To Body Weight Almost 25 Percent Of The Human Genome

Medicine. Knockout mice are now standard tools in all mouse models of behavior and disease. In 60% of ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 15 2008 - 8:30am

Early Results Look Promising In Malaria Vaccine Trial

December 2004, at the end of the malaria transmission season. As expected, all volunteers had significant ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 23 2008 - 9:31am

Shutting Off Problem Genes: New RNAi Clinical Trials Set To Begin

one-third of all human gene transcripts (or messenger RNAs), are implicated in many human diseases. Using ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 23 2008 - 11:14am

Stroke Victims May Benefit From Adult Stem Cell Transplants

in all animals seven days after cell transplantation,” said study lead author Ren-Ke Li, MD, PhD. ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 28 2008 - 1:05am