Life Sciences

I Like Whales Even Though They Eat Squid

charismatic megafauna, even though they overshadow all the other weird and wonderful marine life, I still like ...

Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Mar 21 2011 - 7:26pm

Rewriting The Genetic Code

popular model organisms, the researchers identified all TAG codons (stop signals), and, aided by viral ...

Article - Gunnar De Winter - Jul 15 2011 - 8:00am

Squid Pen Draws Current Biotech Progress

no hard supports at all. (Though of course the pen prevents squids from being nearly as clever about ...

Article - Danna Staaf - Sep 27 2011 - 1:15pm

3 Papers Discuss The Molecular Toolkits We Share With Flies And Worms

the control of this process by the packaging of DNA is very similar in all of the organisms. In fact, ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 29 2014 - 9:14am

Cheese Metabolism Study May Make Lowering Cholesterol Tasty

cheese ever was, as all those commercials touting probiotics show us. But since elevated butyrate levels ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 8 2015 - 2:40pm

Tardigrade, The World's Most Indestructible Species- What Would It Take To Make Them Extinct?

these life forms will likely survive all astrophysical calamities, such as an asteroid, since they will ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 14 2017 - 12:12pm

Chromosome Reduction Of Egg Cells In Mice

Coordinator of the Gene Expression Unit at EMBL, “all other cells contain two centrosomes from where the ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 9 2007 - 12:57pm

Generic genome sequence press release (by Andy)

all but one) cure cancer/end world hunger/prevent hair loss). ...

Blog Post - T. Ryan Gregory - Nov 19 2008 - 12:29pm

Natural Selection Is Group Selection!

groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. All else is commentary.” It was a neat ending, but they ...

Blog Post - Steve Davis - Dec 7 2008 - 3:00am

Peppered moth

issue which is a special volume all about eyes. ...

Blog Post - T. Ryan Gregory - Dec 29 2008 - 9:14am