Life Sciences

Synthetic Yeast Chromosomes

loxPsym were added to all the non-essential genes. These markers are ‘attacked’ by an enzyme called Cre, ...

Article - Gunnar De Winter - Sep 15 2011 - 10:35am

Inorganic Life?

can use each other as templates to self-replicate). Because after all, in the words of Professor ...

Article - Gunnar De Winter - Sep 18 2011 - 1:10pm

Do Women Have A Stronger Immune System Than Men?

changes in gene expression. In the human genome, the X chromosome contains almost 10% of all miRNAs ...

Article - Gunnar De Winter - Sep 29 2011 - 4:44am

Orexin And Weight Loss: Fight Fat With Fat

cancers.  That's a lot of fat, but not all fat is bad. When we picture body fat, what we are thinking ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 4 2011 - 6:00pm

Laser Worms!

all-nematodecast.  Stay tuned, science fans. Stirman, J., Crane, M., Husson, S., Wabnig, S., Schultheis, C., ...

Article - Sean Gibbons - Oct 9 2011 - 8:14pm

Peru's Mountain Of Humboldt Squid

all over the place during that decade. The real low point was 1998, which my gentle readers may recall ...

Article - Danna Staaf - Oct 15 2011 - 5:31pm

One Thing Males And Females Have In Common: Up-Regulating X-Linked Genes

in different species," says Lieb. "We also found that not all X-linked genes are dosage ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 27 2011 - 6:00am

The Prefrontal Cortex Evolution and the Educational Process In Human Childhood

human infant is unable to survive by it self; all of us need parental care during childhood. Because ...

Blog Post - Arturo Pèrez-Arteaga - Oct 28 2011 - 11:26pm

IKKbeta Enzyme Prevents Weight Gain- But At A Cost

weight but significantly more slowly. All the mice started at the same weight. After about 22 weeks on ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 14 2011 - 4:30pm

The Smallest Jumbo Squid

There was no time to explain all of this on Monday, though, since I was too busy answering questions ...

Article - Danna Staaf - Nov 23 2011 - 12:01pm