Life Sciences

Singularity Science Theater 3000: How Reverse-Engineering Postponed Artificial Intelligence

not generally computable by machines at all (it is one of those undecidability results). Understanding ...

Article - Mark Changizi - Dec 2 2010 - 11:23pm

Wild Salmon Numbers Are Dropping, But Science Can Fix It

"In the Pacific Northwest, many hatcheries mark all of their fish by clipping off the adipose fin. ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 9 2012 - 6:01am

What Robots Can Tell Us About Brain Cells

a giant set of robots that would do all the genome sequencing. In directed evolution or in synthetic ...

Article - News Staff - May 15 2012 - 10:25am

Food Fear, Food Labels, And My Two Cents

A country breathed a collective “Up Your Nose with a Rubber Hose” and all was okay with the world once the ...

Article - Kevin M. Folta - Sep 17 2012 - 4:34pm

A Treatment For Neurodegenerative Machado-Joseph Disease?

other neurodegenerative disorders with a potential “toxic fragments’ link.  But most important of all is ...

Article - Catarina Amorim - Jul 23 2012 - 9:45am

Synthetic Biology Study Exposes Living Cells To Synthetic Protein

reverse transcribe a protein back into DNA. You can't PCR amplify a protein. So we have to do all ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 28 2012 - 5:32am

The Ancient Silk Road Delivered Culture, Goods...And A Genetic Disease

disease development." Not all of the 800,000 gene variants analyzed were directly genotyped. ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 7 2013 - 4:30am

New Mechanism Discovery: How A Parasite Causes Cancer

reduce the density of the bladder wall (a known effect of reduced estrogen receptors). After all   S. ...

Article - Catarina Amorim - Jan 16 2013 - 10:07pm

Earliest Date For Placental Mammals Discovered

Combining all the evidence produces the most informed reconstruction of a past event." Researchers ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 7 2013 - 4:03pm

What Is Life- Part 2

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/04/29/0903397106.full.pdf+html The upshot of all this is that these experiments strengthen the ideas that biology can be ...

Article - Gerhard Adam - Feb 8 2013 - 12:16pm