Life Sciences

Why Is Mediocrity So Common?

magnitude, an unsuspected and most beautiful form of regularity proves to have been latent all along. The ...

Article - Michael White - Mar 19 2009 - 9:23am

Unique Aspects Of Down Syndrome

occurs.   Yet only about half of all pregnant women choose to be tested and screened for Down syndrome. ...

Blog Post - Dan Abshear - Apr 20 2009 - 9:31am

Make Your Own Pandemic- Mix Human And Avian Flu (But Do It In A Biosafety Level 3 Lab)

participate in specified medical surveillance programs, and report all incidents that constitute potential ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 27 2009 - 10:32pm

Blood Stem Cells Go With The Flow

self-renewing" The most efficient way to do that is to go to the source and sort out all the signals the embryo ...

Article - News Staff - May 13 2009 - 12:55pm

Life: An Icy Origin?

monomers are necessary for the synthesis of polymers required by all forms of life on the Earth. Before ...

Article - Dave Deamer - Jun 4 2009 - 12:20pm

Fossil Vs DNA Smackdown- 'Dental Hominoids' And How Humans Are Closer To Orangutans Than Chimps

Chimpanzees and gorillas were found to share only those features found in all great apes. Schwartz and Grehan ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 18 2009 - 11:16am

Vertebrate Genome Reorganization: Sea Lamprey Embryo Discards Millions Of Units Of Its DNA

a point near, and perhaps including, a common ancestor of all vertebrates living today, the authors of the ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 20 2009 - 4:29pm

Geographic Mosaic Theory And How Parasites Make Sex Worthwhile

reproductive advantage, as all the individuals in the clone can directly produce offspring," said  Indiana ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 23 2009 - 2:35pm

The Braintionary- Our Brain's Mental Lexicon

use the most fundamental words to define all the other words in the dictionary, so that there would be ...

Article - Mark Changizi - Sep 27 2009 - 11:49pm

Humboldt Squid Are Still Not Giant Squid

getting their species all mixed up, but apparently they don't remember covering this exact story last ...

Article - Danna Staaf - Feb 9 2010 - 4:32pm