Life Sciences

Klerokinesis: New Form Of Cell Division Found

now thinks that among all those rounds of cell division an organism goes through, every once in ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 24 2012 - 4:39pm

First Goat Genome Facilitates De Novo Assembly Of Large Genomes

hair in all mammals, and the secondary hair follicle that can produce the cashmere or "fine ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 23 2012 - 5:14pm

Burrowing by Way of Genes: Mice provide clues to genetics of behavior

all animals. Ironically, the science is the least clear where the connection between genetics and ...

Blog Post - Kenrick Vezina - Jan 23 2013 - 11:08am

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