Life Sciences

Comparing Genomes On A Chip

bacteria all descended from the original surviving bacterium- has formed on the plate. You can pick off ...

Article - Michael White - May 6 2007 - 1:20am

How Plants Fight Back

damage, and pathogens such as bacteria and fungi can all set off a variety of peptide warning signals in ...

Article - News Staff - May 10 2007 - 12:34am

How Cell Memory Evolves

happens in fact in all of us as our body develops: cells with identical genetic information adopt very ...

Article - News Staff - May 17 2007 - 12:23pm

Researchers Reverse Heart Failure With Gene Therapy

hardly changed at all even when a large percentage of the heart muscle had died. At the same time, other ...

Article - News Staff - May 23 2007 - 5:23pm

Botulism Bug Has Few Genome Wrinkles

from the other five sequenced clostridia, and only 16% of the C. botulinum genes are common to all ...

Article - News Staff - May 24 2007 - 1:41am

Sharks Use Their Noses And Bodies To Locate Smells

line. The lateral line is an organ used by all fish to detect, with exquisite sensitivity, movement and ...

Article - News Staff - May 29 2007 - 2:59pm

The Genetics Of Winter Survival- Heat Shock Proteins Help Insects

species cause millions of dollars of damage annually. Hsp70 was active while all of the insects were in ...

Article - News Staff - May 30 2007 - 12:44pm

Do Beta-amyloids Cause Alzheimers?

Extensive deposits of beta-amyloid are found throughout the brains of all patients with Alzheimer's ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 4 2007 - 1:14pm

Inbreeding Doesn't Necessarily Cause Deficiencies, Say Researchers

managed to go all the way back to the son of the founders,” said Denis Réale with a smile. “We were even ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 20 2007 - 4:45pm

Measuring Self-assembly In Action

propagation—all phenomena that grow outward on waves of change. In recent years, simulations and theoretical ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 21 2007 - 9:47pm