Life Sciences

How Epigenetic Information Could Be Inherited

'reprogramming' allows all genes to be read afresh for each new person- leaving scientists to question how ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 24 2013 - 5:00pm

Can We Smell In Stereo?

frequently could not find the food at all. As for humans, Catania remains skeptical. "In humans, this is ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 5 2013 - 12:13pm

Forerunners Of Inner-Ear Cells That Enable Hearing Identified

critical for hearing. Twenty percent of all Americans, and up to 33 percent of those ages 65-74, suffer ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 26 2013 - 9:52am

PICM-19: Pig Liver Cells Could Power Artificial Liver

really do all the metabolic functions of the liver," said Talbot. Hepatocytes also "scrub" ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 28 2013 - 10:27am

Bone Mass And Fat Genetically Linked- Study

extent to which these genes contribute to interdependence of all major body composition components, says ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 11 2013 - 4:40pm

Wheat Genome Studies Shed Light On Its Domestication, Genetic Adaptation And Modification

goals of making all data fully and freely available, the huge amounts of data (1.5 terabytes) are ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 26 2013 - 11:50am

Sexual Dimorphism And The Evolutionary Consequences Of Infidelity

decided by the clutch size of the female? Paternity analyses have long revealed that not all offspring are ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 3 2013 - 11:31am

Maybe Evolution Will Save Us From Environmental Change

eventually mature, they were so enormous they could lay all of their eggs very quickly." Significant ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 9 2013 - 10:50am

The Early Warning Signs Of Population Collapse

it can use as a food source. All of the yeast benefit from this process, so a population is most ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 10 2013 - 5:00pm

Squid Fishing Fight Not 'David Vs Goliath' But More Like 'Boy Who Cried Wolf'

might think that the larger seine vessel squid fishermen are illegally catching all of the allowable ...

Article - Michael Conroy - May 4 2013 - 12:00pm