Life Sciences

What Goldilocks Can Teach Us About Natural Selection

uniformly expressed at high levels in all species examined so far. If your ribosome genes slack off, chances ...

Article - Michael White - Feb 11 2009 - 10:06pm

Gene Duplication And Genetic Flexibility- Their Unknown Impact On Human Evolution

species: macaques, orangutans, chimpanzees, and humans. All are descended from a single ancestral species ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 11 2009 - 7:53pm

Songbirds Fly Fast- Really Fast

grounds. All five wood thrushes wintered in a narrow band in eastern Honduras or Nicaragua. "This ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 13 2009 - 10:02am

Adaptation Trumps Fitness In Evolution Simulation, Says Study

life and death, as it were. All of these processes are also largely probabilistic and lead to ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 13 2009 - 10:17am

Fix A Broken Heart- Literally- With Adult Stem Cells

"Things are able to progress much more quickly thanks to all the research already done with embryonic stem ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 15 2009 - 10:53am

C. Difficile's Shell Discovery Mean Mean Superbug Drug

S-layer proteins linked together into the 'building block' which makes up the layer over all ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 27 2009 - 10:03am

Ken Miller Responds To Massimo Pigliucci (And Vice Versa)

values the scientific enterprise. I do very much wish that all of my secular colleagues could see things ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Mar 2 2009 - 11:01am

Old Cells Work Differently Than Young Ones

protein quality control is thus a requirement for the survival of all cells. It has already been ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 28 2009 - 12:12pm

The Yeast Pathway To Understanding Parkinson's Disease

disease'.  "We would love to be able to link all the genes that we know have something to do with ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 28 2009 - 3:46pm

Monocytes And TH1 Response- A New Path For Vaccine Science

response at all," Gunn said, because they wouldn't be able to mobilize dendritic cells. "The ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 1 2009 - 3:04pm