Life Sciences

Complex Trait Prediction- Eye Color From DNA Technique Is 90 Percent Accurate

You might think that predicting eye color is easy because we all learned in high school about ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 9 2009 - 12:08pm

Genetics For Dummies

"Are you confused by all the talk about DNA and genes? We can help," claims the ...

Article - Michael White - Jul 4 2009 - 12:29pm

Puijila Darwini- 'Missing Link' In Evolution Of Seals, Sea Lions And Walruses

seals, sea lions, and the walrus.  Modern seals, sea lions, and walruses all have flippers—limb ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 22 2009 - 4:03pm

Sex Wars: Class Struggle In Bees

It's not all balloons and ponies in bee colonies, despite what you may have learned.   Bees ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 9 2009 - 4:01pm

The Brain's Molecular Software

But the computer is essentially useless until you’ve downloaded all the necessary software and ...

Article - Jennifer Wong - Dec 11 2012 - 1:12pm

Non-coding DNA Function... Surprising?

The existence of functional, non-protein-coding DNA is all too frequently portrayed as a great ...

Article - Michael White - Feb 10 2011 - 4:52pm

Can Loud Noises Really Kill Squid?

Hot new squid research has the world of cephalopod reporting all abuzz! The press release came out ...

Article - Danna Staaf - Apr 21 2011 - 1:25pm

How Did Science Determine The Body Was Osama Bin Laden? PCR

With Osama Bin Laden dead, conspiracy theorists will find a way to say it isn't him at all ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Sep 15 2011 - 11:38am

Can Transplanted Embryonic Stem Cells Integrate Into Target Organs? A Neuron Test Case

embryonic stem cells (hESC), and induced pluripotent stem cells(iPS Cells), can give rise to all of the 220 ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 28 2011 - 12:00pm

Did Infectious Disease Gene Changes Conquer The Human Evolution Bottleneck?

expanding dramatically in both number and range, and replacing all other co-existing evolutionary cousins, ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 5 2012 - 4:30am